The Game Is Murder

The Ultimate Locked-Room Mystery Where YOU Are the Detective!THE MOST ORIGINAL, META MURDER MYSTERY OF 2025, PERFECT FOR FANS OF STUART TURTON, ANTHONY HOROWITZ AND AGATHA CHRISTIE'A high-energy mystery, both exclamation point and question mark...a striking, playful novel' A.J. Finn'The ultimate locked room mystery for all Agatha Christie lovers out there' 5* reader review'Witty and remarkable and entirely unpredictable' Alex Pavesi

A high-energy mystery, both exclamation point and question mark – like Agatha Christie on amphetamines. Imagine a labyrinth packed with ninety-degree turns and spiralling staircases and art on the walls – and a ruthless guide addressing you directly from the page – and you’ve got a sense of The Game Is Murder, a striking, playful novel for neither the faint of heart nor the slow of wit -- A.J. Finn ― No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman In The Window

A significant achievement, packed with insight and invention, The Game Is Murder presents the reader with a fiction killing that seems to defy explanation. It is witty and remarkable and entirely unpredictable -- Alex Pavesi ― author of Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, Eight Detectives

A postmodern puzzler that dares to pull apart every trope in the book – literally -- Antony Johnston

I thoroughly enjoyed The Game Is Murder. Strikingly original, but with nods to Golden Age crime, it's an ingenious story of constantly changing perspectives. Different, clever, and highly entertaining! -- Guy Morpuss ― author of A Trial In Three Acts

Move over, Anthony Horowitz. First-timer Ward has entered with a whodunit just as playfully meta as yours...clues like the putative murder weapon will be analysed to within an inch of their lives and all parties in atendance will stand accused, singly and jointly, of crimes and misdemeanours before the author pulls one last rabbit from her hat in a denouement likely to be hailed with both surprise and exhausted relief. Hardcore fans entranced by all those Easter eggs may well turn the last page wondering if they've missed even more ― Kirkus

A remarkable, unique novel inspired by an infamous case that embraces experimental, postmodern and metafictional techniques -- Nicholas Royle