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Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton is an English author of intricately plotted mysteries that mix classic whodunit structures with speculative ideas, historical settings and horror.

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About Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton is an English novelist and former journalist from Widnes. Before publishing fiction, he worked as a technology and travel journalist. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, released in 2018, was his debut novel; he has since written The Devil and the Dark Water and The Last Murder at the End of the World.

Turton builds mysteries around strict, unusual rules. In The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Aiden Bishop must solve a killing at Blackheath while reliving the same day through the bodies of different guests. The Devil and the Dark Water moves the puzzle to a seventeenth-century voyage, while The Last Murder at the End of the World places one on an isolated island after an apocalypse. Across these books, confined settings, hidden identities and shifting loyalties keep the investigation unstable.

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle won the Costa First Novel Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Novel. Its success established Turton as a writer willing to combine the clue-driven mechanics of classic crime fiction with science fiction, fantasy and horror.

New readers should begin with The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. It introduces Turton’s method at its most distinctive: a country-house murder, a repeating day and a detective forced to reconsider the crime whenever he wakes in another suspect’s body.

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

At Blackheath, a decaying English country estate, a house party is approaching the moment when Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Aiden Bishop must identify her killer if he hopes to escape—but he is trapped in a repeating day and awakens each time inside a different guest. Every host gives him new access, abilities, weaknesses, and prejudices, turning detection into a struggle over perspective as well as evidence. Meanwhile, rival investigators pursue their own freedom, a murderous footman stalks the estate, and Aiden’s missing memories conceal another mystery. Stuart Turton combines the clue-driven architecture of a country-house whodunit with a speculative time loop and body-swapping narrative. The result is an intricate puzzle about identity, observation, guilt, punishment, and whether people can become more than the worst things they have done.

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