You are cordially invited to play a game…You are cordially invited to play a game…Tuesday Mooney loves a puzzle. So when an eccentric billionaire drops dead, leaving behind a fiendish treasure hunt – open to anyone – to his fortune, Tuesday can’t resist.Although she works best alone, she soon finds herself partnering up with best friend Dex (money manager by day, karaoke-zealot by night) and the mysterious Nathaniel Arches, eldest son of a wealthy family who held a long-running feud with the dead man.As the clues are solved, excitement across the city reaches fever pitch – but nothing is as it seems, and the puzzle-within-a-puzzle holds something much darker than a vast fortune at its heart…‘Witty, exciting, and absolutely riveting’ Kayla Rae Whitaker, author of The Animators‘Shirley Jackson by way of Henry James … pure hilariously wry and witty’ Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World‘A quirky ghost story, an addictive adventure tale, a love letter to the city of Boston, and, at its center, a story about grieving, intimacy, and what it means to be a true friend’ Louise Miller, author of The City Baker’s Guide to Country LivingPraise for Kate Racculia:‘A deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I've read in years’ Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere‘Funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating’ Robin Sloan, author of Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour BookstoreKate Racculia is the author of the novels This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award. She works for the Bethlehem Area Public Library in Pennsylvania. You can find her at www.kateracculia.com or @kateracculia.• Part treasure hunt, part whodunnit, with a nod to everything from Cluedo, to The Goonies, to Edgar Allen Poe• An unlikely mashup of genres that has the emotional heart of Little Miss Sunshine and the satisfying unravelling of a mystery of the best of Agatha Christie• A UK debut, Kate has previously won the 2015 Alex Award for Teen Readers and Adult Books, with her debut BELLWEATHER RHAPSODY in the USCompetition: seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle;silent companions;bone china;mr penumbra’s 24 hour shop;the fortress;the confession;the familiars. edgar allen poe;agatha christie;stuart turton;laura purcell;jessie burton;carolyn kirby;michelle paver;elizabeth mcneal;stacey halls
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