Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Eight Detectives: The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month

“Alex Pavesi knows the genre inside out. One of the year`s most entertaining crime novels” Sunday Times, Crime Book of the Month”When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over” A. J. Finn, bestselling author of `The Woman in the Window`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.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 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.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…