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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton
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mystery time loop thriller past tense first POV ~544 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

oppressive paranoid melancholic

A mystery. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 40
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 85
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count136,004
Page count~544 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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