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A New York Times Top Ten Thriller of 2020

One of the most innovative mysteries in recent memory. - The Wall Street Journal

Dizzying, dazzling When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over.
A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective.

Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out publishing seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate the rules of murder. But that was thirty years ago. Now he''s living a life of seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor, knocks on his door. His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories. An author, hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it.

But

The Eighth Detective

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 3 August 2021
      ISBN-13 9781250798473
      978-1250798473
      ISBN-10 1250798477

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Top Ten Thriller of 2020

      One of the most innovative mysteries in recent memory. - The Wall Street Journal

      Dizzying, dazzling When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over.
      A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

      There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective.

      Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out publishing seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate the rules of murder. But that was thirty years ago. Now he''s living a life of seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor, knocks on his door. His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories. An author, hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it.

      But

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