Eight detectives

Discover this year''s most original mystery that will have you guessing until the very last page...br>br>SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTHbr>br>''Alex Pavesi knows the genre inside out. One of the year''s most entertaining crime novels'' SUNDAY TIMES br>br>''When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over.'' A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Windowbr>br>''I couldn''t put Eight Detectives down . . . I genuinely wanted to applaud at the end'' Alex North, bestselling author of The Whisper Manbr>br>All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out.br>br>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.br>br> But as she reads, Julia is unsettled to realise that there are things in the stories that don''t make sense. Intricate clues that seem to reference a real murder, one that''s remained unsolved for thirty years.br>br>If Julia wants answers, she must triumph in a battle of wits with a dangerously clever adversary. But she must tread carefully: she knows there''s a mystery, but she doesn''t yet realise there''s already been a murder . . .>