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  • Published: 24 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804942345
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.99

The Murder Game



A gripping locked-room mystery set around a murder mystery party in a crumbling country house. This is Tom Hindle's fiendish follow-up to A Fatal Crossing.

One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...

Guests assemble at Hamlet Hall for a New Year's Eve party to remember.

They are to take part in a murder mystery game with a 1920s twist, and everyone has their own part to play.

But the evening has barely begun when one guest is found dead - killed by an injury to the head.

Someone is playing by their own rules.

And in a close-knit community, old rivalries run deep...


Praise for Tom Hindle:

'Will delight Agatha Christie fans' Ragnar Jónasson

'Twist after gut-punching twist' M. W. Craven

'Dazzling' Crime Monthly

'My kind of book' Belfast Telegraph

'Suspenseful' Country Life Magazine

  • Published: 24 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804942345
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Tom Hindle

Tom Hindle hails from Leeds and lives in Oxfordshire with his wife, a cat and two surprisingly cunning tortoises. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing and now The Murder Game - which have both been inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz. Tom is hard at work on his next murder mystery.

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