The Clock House Murders

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Paperback, 413 pages

Published 2025 by Pushkin Vertigo.

ISBN:
978-1-80533-526-9
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The remote Clock House is filled with priceless timepieces from across the world. It is also rumoured to be haunted by the spirit of a dead girl. A team of ghosthunters visit the mansion to investigate, but their stay has barely begun when one of them is gruesomely murdered, and the survivors realize that they are trapped inside the house with a killer...

As the murderer's bloody spree continues, the team are picked off one by one. Can the brilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi crack the enigma of the Clock House before all those inside have been slain? And can you guess the solution before he does?

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reviewed The Clock House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Wonderful.

I think I like this book even more than the others in this series, which are also books that I adore. This one has a bit of a clever solution, even if some of the clues start lining up a bit early. If you're not reading it to solve it, it's not going to be overtly obvious what's happening and what machinations are taking place.

I also found that there were a lot of interesting philosophical conversations taking place, which I found quite interesting. They weren't overly long or verbose, and they also fit quite neatly into the narrative without bogging it down. Each of them felt exactly like how someone thinking of a problem would vocalise their random thoughts.

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