The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

 Stuart Turton brings the reader a clever twist in The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

This is a complicated and multi leveled plot.  We meet Aiden Bishop as he wakes up in a forest and starts running after Anna.  Though he seems to be lost, someone hands him a compass and points him the direction of manor house. When he arrives he is quite confused and has to learn again who he is and why he is there. 

It turns out that Aiden is caught in a repeating loop that has him repeating the same day over and over until he can find out the answer.  The Plague Doctor visits him and explains what is happening.  He is at a special prison called Blackheath.  He has eight chances to find out who kills Evelyn Hardcastle before he can be released.

Each day he inhabits a new host, or guest at the castle and each night there is a party at which Evelyn will die at 11 pm.  As Aiden inhabits each person's body, he sees the experience from different perspective. Each time he finds out more and more detail that will help him discover the killer.  He is also now trying to also help Anna escape and to prevent the actual murder of Evelyn.  

Each of the guests bodies Aiden inhabits are very different giving him very different experiences, Aiden becomes good at making slight changes to the day each time to alter the outcome.  Even though the book refers to eight days, we are really getting clues though out the novel, if you can piece them together as you go.