Williamsburg Regional Library

"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 WindowThere are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective.Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out – and wrote seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days.Until Julia Hart, a brilliant, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it.But there are things in the stories that don't add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve.Alex Pavesi's The Eighth Detective is a love letter to classic detective stories with a modern twist, where nothing is as it seems, and proof that the best mysteries break all the rules. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company "[Narrator Emilia] Fox's warm, calm British accent is reminiscent of an Agatha Christie production,which fits perfectly with the mid-century setting" — Booklist

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The Eighth DetectiveA Novel