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A thrilling wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery in which a young editor travels to a remote village in the Mediterranean in the hopes of convincing a reclusive writer to republish his collection of detective stories only to realize that there are greater mysteries beyond the pages of books.There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. AA thrilling wildly inventive nesting doll of a mystery in which a young editor travels to a remote village in the Mediterranean in the hopes of convincing a reclusive writer to republish his collection of detective stories only to realize that there are greater mysteries beyond the pages of books.There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister a professor of mathematics once sat down and worked them all out ? calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island counting the rest of his days.Until Julia Hart a sharp ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it.But there are things in the stories that dont add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve.Alex Pavesi's The Eighth Detective is a cerebral inventive novel with a modern twist where nothing is what it seems and proof that the best mysteries break all the rules.(less)

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