by Stuart Turton
This is a kind of ground hog day scenario
A group of people as gathered at a family estate on the anniversary of the death of the son of the estate owners years before. A guest at the estate sees what he thinks is a woman being attacked/murdered and is injured himself. He manages to make his way back to the house. Over the next few hours the man finds that he is inside the heads/bodies of several of the guests.
He finds that he is tasked with trying to find out who murders the daugther of the family. If he manages to solve this he will be allowed to leave the property. The man finds it very disconcerting to inhabit these different people, at different times of the day. He meets a woman Anne who appears to be trying to help him and he wants to save her also.
The book then goes through various times of day and characters as the "main character" tries to figure out what is going to happen. I appears that the daughter of the family is engaged against her will to a much older man, a friend of the family. The marriage is being orchestrated so that her husband will bail the family out financially. The scenario seems to be that the young woman kills herself rather than go through with the marriage.
As the story progresses the main character eventually figures out that the young woman wants to fake her suicide but her brother actually tries to kill her.
It was a novel idea to a story and structured quite well between all the personas. However by the end it was getting quite confusing as to who did what and who knew what.
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