"One of the year's most entertaining crime novels" (Sunday Times) - everyone is talking about this year's most original mystery debut
Alex Pavesi lives in Surrey, where he writes full time. He previously worked as a software engineer and before that obtained a PhD in Mathematics. He enjoys puzzles, long walks and recreational lock picking. His debut novel Eight Detectives has been published in more than twenty languages, and was picked by the Sunday Times and the New York Times as one of their books of the year.
TODAY'S GREATEST EXPONENT OF PLAYFUL DETECTIVE FICTION. A
gloriously original, intricate and often very funny series of
practical jokes played on the reader
*Oskar Jensen, GUARDIAN*
Terrific. Alex Pavesi knows the genre inside out. One of the year's
most entertaining crime novels
*Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month*
Dizzying, dazzling - a potent potion of a thriller, a brew of
bibliophilia (think The Shadow of the Wind), wire-taut tension (The
Talented Mr. Ripley), and plot swerves so sharp and sudden you risk
whiplash with each turn of the page, as bold as the best of Michael
Connelly and Lisa Gardner. When did you last read a genuinely
original thriller? The wait is over.
*A J Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window*
So, so clever. A twisty story and an education in the maths of
murder mysteries, Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this
one - bravo!
*Sarah Pinborough*
Alex Pavesi is a lively writer . . . It feels like a game of
Clue-do-ku
*Times*
An elegantly structured, intellectually challenging and completely
unique thriller that grips like a vice
*Sunday Times bestselling author of The Killings at
Kingfisher Hill*
This is both a wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to
the golden age of crime fiction
*Mail on Sunday*
It's rare for me to read a book in a single day, but I couldn't put
Eight Detectives down. Compelling, clever, and
beautifully-constructed. It deserves to be huge. I genuinely wanted
to applaud at the end
*Alex North*
A brilliantly twisty thriller. I adored this clever, game-playing
book - it's like Agatha Christie for bibliophiles
*Sunday Times*
A box of delights . . . Pavesi's revelations are completely
unexpected, right up to the end
*New York Times*
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