The Turnglass | Gareth Rubin

'A stunning, ingenious, truly immersive mystery.
The Turnglass is a thrilling delight' Chris Whitaker Stuart Turton meets The Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of clever crime fiction.Imagine you're holding a book in your hands.
It's not just any book though.
It's a tete-beche novel, beloved of nineteenth-century bookmakers.
It's a book that is two books: two intertwined stories printed back-to-back.Open the book and the first novella begins.
It ends at the middle of the book.
Then flip the book over, head to tail, and read the second story in the opposite direction.Both covers are front covers;
and it can be read in either direction, or in both directions at once, alternating chapters, to fully immerse the reader in it.1880s England.
On the bleak island of Ray, off the Essex coast, an idealistic young doctor, Simeon Lee, is called from London to treat his cousin, Parson Oliver Hawes, who is dying.
Parson Hawes, who lives in the only house on the island - Turnglass House - believes he is being poisoned.
And he points the finger at his sister-in-law, Florence.
Florence was declared insane after killing Oliver's brother in a jealous rage and is now kept in a glass-walled apartment in Oliver's library.
And the secret to how she came to be there is found in Oliver's tete-beche journal, where one side tells a very different story from the other.