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'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle' is a wildly commercially successful book, translated into 28 languages and with a Netflix series in the works. When published in 2018 it made everyone's lists and won some impressive swag. But I suspect it's one of those books that everyone bought but many didn't finish; like 'A Brief History of Time' for crime buffs. Stuart Turton has written a "time-travelling, body-hopping murder mystery" (his words), so tricky and twisty it's near impossible to follow. The narrator wakes up each day in a new body, damned to repeat the same day over and over until he identifies Evelyn's murderer. Of course, it's not that simple. Compounding the complexity, Turton has named three of his key characters Davies, Derby and Dance—an author's conceit which demanded more attention than I was willing to spare.