The folks at Raven, a newish crime imprint at Bloomsbury, have described this one as “Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie”. Stuart Turton, a debut novelist, has drawn on half a dozen familiar tropes from popular culture and reworked them into something altogether fresh and memorable. The narrator wakes up in a dripping forest, wearing someone else’s dinner jacket and, he soon realises, someone else’s body. A masked figure informs him tersely that today, a murder will be committed – a murder that won’t seem like a murder. He will relive the same day eight times, but each morning he’ll wake up in a different body, or “host”.

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2018 07:30 UTC