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Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi
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Ink Ribbon Red

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Length 7 hours 34 minutes
Language English
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Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game.

All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.

Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.

Of course, when given such a task, itโ€™s only natural to use what you know. Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.

But once youโ€™ve put it in a story, that secret is out.

So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.

Which leads to the most important question:

When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time?

"The master puppeteer of literary crime" JANICE HALLETT

"Today's greatest exponent of playful detective fiction" GUARDIAN

ยฉ2024 Alex Pavesi (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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.

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Reviews

A brilliant work of illusion: murders, real and imagined, nestled within one another! The clues are all there, if you can see them. A book you finish and then start again just to see how thoroughly youโ€™ve been fooled! Ink Ribbon Red is the epitome of the artful murder mystery and Alex Pavesi the master puppeteer of literary crime, creating a unique yet relatable cast on pages that wonโ€™t stop turning. I was utterly hooked Quirky and unpredictable, Ink Ribbon Red is a Rubik's cube of unreliable narratives Ink Ribbon Red is a thriller for clever people. This dark-hearted, light-footed mystery-thriller โ€” an inspired mash-up of And Then There Were None, Cluedo, and Lucy Foley โ€” plays fair, fierce, and fast: like the what-could-go-wrong party game that goes very wrong indeed for its cast, itโ€™s dangerous fun, and just the tonic for readers hungover on same-old-same-old crime fiction. Praise for Alex Pavesi's sensational bestseller, Eight Detectives One of the year's most entertaining crime novels So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo! A wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to the golden age of crime fiction A box of delights . . . Pavesi's revelations are completely unexpected, right up to the end Exquisitely original Fun There are reveals within reveals as the bamboozled reader tries to decide whatโ€™s real and what isnโ€™t. More fun than Eight Detectives A spectacularly complex, crafty puzzle with characters who come more and more to life as the stakes get higher A new spin on the traditional country house murder . . . when the style is this good, itโ€™s worth the investment. Expand reviews
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