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Brimming with insider industry panache and the kind of heart that’s any shipper’s dream, this shrewdly witty novel delivers an amateur mystery plus romance as a TV detective duo stumble into a real-life case . . . and possibly a happy F/F ending.
“Great fun.” —The New York Times
Bexley Simon and Sam Farmer aren’t detectives, but they play them on TV. Well, played, past tense. The iconic cult hit that was Craven’s Daughter ended five years ago, and their friendship died with it. Fans were disappointed that the pair’s legendary chemistry went unfulfilled—and crushed that the actual spark between actresses Bex and Sam didn’t pay off, either. The network never intended for two women to get romantic, in life or onscreen. But the bigger tragedy was the loss of their dear friend, makeup artist Jen Arnot, whose accidental death cast a pall over the series’ last episodes.
Now the network has decided on a reunion special, and Bex and Sam are thrust together once more to host a rewatch podcast. Their first guest—a megawatt star who played a murder victim early on—drops a bombshell. Among the millions of pixels of fanfic written about the show online, one truly prolific author, known in the fiction world as the show’s Big Name Fan, was an insider, almost certainly someone from the cast or crew.
As the podcast moves along—and the spark between Bex and Sam threatens to burn down the studio—the pair realize they’re faced with two actual mysteries: Who is their Big Name Fan? And was Jen’s death truly an accident—or foul play? Sifting through clues, the duo will need to separate fact from fiction as they make their personal partnership into unmistakable canon . . .
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Cowriting couple Knox and Mare (who previously collaborated on Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous, written as Mae Marvel) bridge Hollywood high drama, cozy mystery, and gentle slow-burn romance in this sweetly satisfying outing. The detective show Craven's Daughter never acknowledged the romantic subtext between leads Cora Banks and Henri Shannon—nor the obvious chemistry between the actors who played them, Bexley Simon and Samantha Farmer—but when the show ended abruptly five years ago, the fans wrote their own happy endings for the women in fan fiction posted online. When Bex and Sam join forces for a rewatch podcast leading up to a reunion special, their first guest, a former castmate, intimates that the most popular writer of Craven's Daughter fanfic may have been an insider telegraphing intel about on-set conflict in her stories, including clues about what really happened to Jen Arnot, the show's makeup designer, who fell to her death from a filming location's balcony. This new information spurs Bex and Sam to press their former colleagues about things many would prefer to keep quiet while simultaneously building the bravery to finally admit their feelings for each other. Readers who love to overanalyze their favorite shows will feel especially seen. This low-heat love letter to the queer fanfic community is a gem.
