Vous aimez Jules Verne, Agatha Christie et Conan Doyle ? Avec ce nouveau puzzle aussi passionnant qu'étourdissant, Stuart Turton vous embarque dans une traversée diabolique !
1634. Le Saardam quitte les Indes néerlandaises pour Amsterdam. À son bord : le gouverneur de l'île de Batavia, sa femme et sa fille. Au fond de la cale, un prisonnier : le célèbre détective Samuel Pipps, victime d'une sombre affaire.
Alors que la traversée s'avère difficile et périlleuse, les voyageurs doivent faire face à d'étranges événements. Un symbole en lettres de sang apparaît sur la grand-voile, une voix terrifiante se fait entendre dans la nuit, et bientôt on retrouve un cadavre dans une cabine fermée de l'intérieur. Le bateau serait-il hanté, ses occupants maudits ? Aucune explication rationnelle ne semble possible. Et l'enquête s'avère particulièrement délicate, entre les superstitions des uns et les secrets des autres.
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Ce soir à 23 heures, Evelyn Hardcastle va être assassinée. Qui, dans cette luxueuse demeure anglaise, a intérêt à la tuer ? Aiden Bishop a quelques heures pour trouver l'identité de l'assassin et empêcher le meurtre. Tant qu'il n'est pas parvenu à ses fins, il est condamné à revivre sans cesse la même journée. Celle de la mort d'Evelyn Hardcastle.
Chef d'oeuvre de construction, de références littéraires et d'habileté technique, Aiden croisera lapin blanc et personnage masqué pour tenter de percer le mystère de ce meurtre aux mille tiroirs !
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Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror - the most inventive story you'll read Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again.
It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.
But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.
The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...
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The mind-blowing new murder mystery from Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water, is OUT NOW.
An impossible murder A remarkable detective duo A demon who may or may not exist The extraordinary new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award.
Praise for The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle :
''Turton has astonishing ambition and narrative skill to match'' Daily Telegraph ''Fiendishly clever'' The Times ''Prepare to have your brain fried and your mind blown'' Daily Express It''s 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world''s greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent, while also on board are Sara Wessel, a noble woman with a secret, and her husband, the governor general of Batavia.
But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock are slaughtered in the night.
And then the passengers hear a terrible voice whispering to them in the darkness, promising them three unholy miracles. First: an impossible pursuit. Second: an impossible theft. Third: an impossible murder.
Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?
With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.>
