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What to read after “The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” by Stuart Turton: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson · 2011
Shared in the plot: morning, wakes, memory
- Amnesia
- Twist Ending
Each morning Christine wakes with no memory of her life, and each day her husband explains who she is. When she starts a diary at a doctor's suggestion, she finds entries in her own hand that contradict what he tells her, and that suggest her past holds a crime.
2
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka · 2004
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
A young soldier is thrown into a war against alien Mimics and killed on his first day of battle, then wakes on the morning before, again and again. Each death teaches him something, and he must relive the same fight until he can survive long enough to find a way out.
3
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Amnesia” and “Twist Ending”
- Amnesia
- Twist Ending
Amber Reynolds is in a coma, though she can hear the people around her and cannot move or speak. In her mind she sifts through the days before the accident and the diary entries from years earlier that do not quite match the life she thought she had.
4
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North · 2014
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Harry August dies and is born again in the same English country house in 1919, remembering everything. Each life draws him into a hidden network of people who live their years over and over, until another of their kind begins to unravel time itself and asks him to stop it.
5
The Likeness
Tana French · 2008
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Gothic Manor
A detective who closely resembles a murdered woman is asked to pose as her among the victim's friends. Living inside another person's life, she finds the group's shared past and its secrets closing in on her own sense of who she is.
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Black-Eyed Susans
Julia Heaberlin · 2015
Shared in the plot: killer, memory
- Amnesia
- Twist Ending
As a teenager, Tessa was the only victim to survive the killer who buried girls in a Texas field of wildflowers, and her testimony sent a man to death row. Nearly twenty years later, fresh flowers appear near her home, and lawyers ask her to recover the memories she lost.
7
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson · 2013
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Ursula Todd is born in 1910 and dies, then is born again in the same English house. Over many lives she survives accidents, war and bad choices, and begins to sense that her repetitions might be leading somewhere.
8
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield · 2006
Similar setting: “Gothic Manor”
- Gothic Manor
- Twist Ending
A bookseller's daughter is summoned by a reclusive author who has never told the truth about her life. As the old woman finally recounts her childhood at a crumbling country house, the listener realises the story hides one more secret. A gothic tale about stories, sisters and the gaps between them.
9
Replay
Ken Grimwood · 1986
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Jeff Winston dies in 1988 and wakes in 1963 in his eighteen-year-old body, with every memory of the years ahead intact. He lives that span over and over, each replay starting later, and slowly realises he is not the only one caught in the loop.
10
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
Shared in the plot: memory, night
- Twist Ending
Rachel rides the same commuter train every day and invents stories about a couple she sees from the window, until she learns the woman has vanished. Her memory of the night in question is full of gaps, and she cannot tell how much of what she believes is real.
11
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Twist Ending”
- Twist Ending
Alicia Berenson shot her husband five times and then never spoke again. Six years later, psychotherapist Theo Faber takes a job at the secure unit where she is held, determined to make her talk. As he digs into her diary and her past, his own reasons for being there come into question.
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Twist Ending”
- Twist Ending
Crime-writing teacher Ernest Cunningham joins his family at a snowbound mountain lodge for his brother's release from prison. When a body turns up, Ernest decides to follow the rules of Golden Age detective fiction to work out which of his relatives is responsible.