Ink Ribbon Red

Praise for Alex Pavesi's sensational bestseller, Eight Detectives

One of the year's most entertaining crime novels

SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH

So, so clever . . . Agatha Christie would take her hat off to this one - bravo!

Sarah Pinborough

A wonderfully tricksy debut and a loving tribute to the golden age of crime fiction

Mail on Sunday

A box of delights . . . Pavesi's revelations are completely unexpected, right up to the end

New York Times

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 you’ve been fooled!

Guy Morpuss, author of Black Lake Manor

Quirky and unpredictable, Ink Ribbon Red is a Rubik's cube of unreliable narratives

Martin Edwards

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 won’t stop turning. I was utterly hooked

Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal

Ink Ribbon Red is a thriller for clever people. This dark-hearted, light-footed mystery-thriller — an inspired mash-up of And Then There Were None, Cluedo, and Lucy Foley — plays fair, fierce, and fast: like the what-could-go-wrong party game that goes very wrong indeed for its cast, it’s dangerous fun, and just the tonic for readers hungover on same-old-same-old crime fiction.

A.J. Finn

Exquisitely original

Ragnar Jonasson

There are reveals within reveals as the bamboozled reader tries to decide what’s real and what isn’t. More fun than Eight Detectives

The Times

Fun

Guardian

A new spin on the traditional country house murder . . . when the style is this good, it’s worth the investment.

Irish News

A spectacularly complex, crafty puzzle with characters who come more and more to life as the stakes get higher

Mail on Sunday