Ink Ribbon Red

Author Alex Pavesi
Narrator Dino Fetscher
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 7 November 2024
Run Time 7 hours and 36 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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Six friends gather at a country house for a birthday weekend. They decide to play a game.

All six names go in a hat. Choose two, and imagine one murdering the other. Write it down. Type it up. Read it out.

Points are given for making the murders sound convincing.

Of course, when given such a task, it’s only natural to use what you know. Secrets. Grudges. Affairs.

But once you’ve put it in a story, that secret is out.

So with each fictional murder, someone gets a motive for a real one.

Which leads to the most important question:

When a real murder comes, will you be able to spot it in time?

"The master puppeteer of literary crime" JANICE HALLETT

"Today's greatest exponent of playful detective fiction" GUARDIAN

©2024 Alex Pavesi (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

A spectacularly complex, crafty puzzle with characters who come more and more to life as the stakes get higher

Mail on Sunday

Ink Ribbon Red is the epitome of the artful murder mystery and Alex Pavesi the master puppeteer of literary crime, creating a unique yet relatable cast on pages that wonu2019t stop turning. I was utterly hooked

Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal

Fun

Guardian

Ink Ribbon Red is a thriller for clever people. This dark-hearted, light-footed mystery-thriller u2014 an inspired mash-up of And Then There Were None, Cluedo, and Lucy Foley u2014 plays fair, fierce, and fast: like the what-could-go-wrong party game that goes very wrong indeed for its cast, itu2019s dangerous fun, and just the tonic for readers hungover on same-old-same-old crime fiction.

A.J. Finn

There are reveals within reveals as the bamboozled reader tries to decide whatu2019s real and what isnu2019t. More fun than Eight Detectives

The Times

A new spin on the traditional country house murder . . . when the style is this good, itu2019s worth the investment.

Irish News

Exquisitely original

Ragnar Jonasson

A brilliant work of illusion: murders, real and imagined, nestled within one another! The clues are all there, if you can see them. A book you finish and then start again just to see how thoroughly youu2019ve been fooled!

Guy Morpuss, author of Black Lake Manor

Quirky and unpredictable, Ink Ribbon Red is a Rubik's cube of unreliable narratives

Martin Edwards

Praise for Alex Pavesi's sensational bestseller, Eight Detectives

User Reviews

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5.0

What a remarkable book. You almost want to take notes. A tale as twisted, shocking and fabulous as A24 film. Everyone sounds delightfully bored, exhausted and evil. This is not a book to fall asleep to nor one to listen to when working. You need your full attention. I love the refreshingly different writing style, the characters, and the plot. I eagerly await another Alex Pavesi book.
Shout out to the narration by Dino Fetscher , who sets the tone wonderfully in this audiobook and Eight Detectives. Perfection

lazepolina 23/03/2025

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