The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

"Again, I’m not sure: is this subverting the genre? Distilling the genre? It’s hard to say, but it certainly does something quite strange with the genre. For those who haven’t read it, it’s essentially a Poirot-esque murder mystery, but the main character keeps dying and being reborn in the bodies of the other suspects. He has to solve the mystery in order to break the strange time loop in which he finds himself. It’s imaginative, it plays with the genre and does something new, and it’s been very successful all around the world. Maybe Stuart was partly inspired by computer games, I don’t know. Maybe it’s been done before, I don’t know. But the way Stuart did it made it very successful. Probably. Do enjoy the mince pies. Watch out for carol singers. And try not to murder anyone."