Turton, Stuart
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1980- ) UK journalist and author whose first novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018), is a detective tale set in a late 1920s country house in rural England, a region and era involuntarily accessed by its protagonist through Time Travel. Once in situ, he finds himself in a kind of Godgame, under the control of a mysterious figure who locks him in a state of Amnesia into a Time Loop, through the action of which he begins the same day eight times, with the same goal: to solve a murder mystery. This overall eight-day cycle may have itself, from our perspective, been repeated thousands of times. The complexities of the tale are – unusually in stories involving manipulations of time – resolved through the solution of the central mystery. The Last Murder at the End of the World (2024) takes place in what seems to be 90 years into the Near Future of planet Earth after an undetermined Holocaust, which has enfogged the entire planet; the venue, an Island abstracted from the world, seems to be the right Thought-Experiment size to house a murder and its solving, though Memory Edits hamper the cast, and a mysterious mind-reading AI kibitzes. [JC]
Stuart Turton
born UK: 1980
works
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (London: Bloomsbury Publishing/Raven Books, 2018) [hb/nonpictorial]
- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks/Landmark, 2018) [vt of the above: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Devil and the Dark Water (London: Bloomsbury Publishing/Raven Books, 2020) [hb/]
- The Last Murder at the End of the World (London: Bloomsbury Publishing/Raven Books, 2024) [hb/]
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