THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES ARE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . 'TODAY'S GREATEST EXPONENT OF PLAYFUL
DETECTIVE FICTION' GUARDIAN 'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SUNDAY TIMES
'When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over' A. J. FINN 'An
elegantly structured intellectually challenging and completely unique thriller that grips like
a vice' SOPHIE HANNAH _______ All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. In the
1930s Grant McAllister a mathematics professor turned author worked them out hiding their
secrets in a book of crime stories. Then Grant disappeared. Julia Hart has finally tracked
him down. She wants to know what happened to him. But she's about to discover that a good
mystery can be murder to solve . . . _______ 'One of the most creative detective novels of
the year . . . If not of all time' Samantha Downing 'Intelligent and inventive . . . It's the
most fun I've had in ages' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'So so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take
her hat off to this one - bravo!' Sarah Pinborough **Winner of the Capital Crimes Reader
Award for Debut Book of the Year** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GLASS BELL AWARD AND THE BARRY AWARD
FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
