Kathleen Flynn's Reviews > The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Clever, engrossing and formally inventive in the way it fillets a classic country-house murder mystery and lays each bit out on the autopsy table, as it were. I was thinking as I read it that the novel would succeed or fail on to what extent I was prepared to buy the frame narrative that would explain why all this was happening. I would say I accept it about 80 or 85 percent. It's satisfying -- not gratifyingly astonishing, but not ridiculous either.

I found myself thinking of another recent book, Version Control, which also is mind-bending and timey-wimey, which also ends with the figure of the artist, putting it all together.