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
