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Really enjoying this. It's like Gosford Park and Groundhog Day mashed together, plus some video game style 'choose your character' body swapping going on, only there is no choice for the main character. The basic plot is that someone is murdered at a remote country estate and the main character has to relive the same day eight times in different "hosts" (people who are in attendance) each day in order to solve the murder and escape the cycle. It's intriguing, it's very well written, it's the sort of setting I love, and there's a creepy guy in a plague doctor costume to round it all out!

( An excerpt. )

The reader (I'm listening to the audio edition because babies) is not my very favorite but he's not bad. This book more than others I wish I could read in text, to better imagine all the different voices, etc., but that's years away, I'm afraid. (Or at least until my next work trip.)

So it's not exactly Dostoyevsky, but it's whole lot of fun. An incredible amount of work went into this thing, it's enormous, weighing in at just over 300 pages! It's like a textbook! Only awesomer and with prettier pictures. Seriously, there are photos and drawings and scans of sketchbooks and type-illustrated song lyrics and stories and some really snazzy design courtesy of ~~Bollo, the gorilla~~ Dave Brown. Also, you learn what really happened to Jack the Ripper. You might be surprised!

Here's a review, far better than mine, and complete with pretty pictures.