How to Kill a Crime Writer
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- $229.00
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- $229.00
Descripción editorial
She wrote for a living. But who wanted her dead?
When bestselling author Annie Morrissey is found dead, her daughter Niamh knows in her gut it’s no accident – even if the case needs a good edit.
The village is strangely uneventful.
The suspects are suspiciously normal.
The leads quickly turn into dead ends…
But when Annie’s final manuscript lands on the doormat, the pages humming with mystery and suspense, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
This can’t be a coincidence.
Because if Niamh learnt anything from her mother’s crime fiction, it’s that there’s no such thing. And that village secrets never stay buried for long…
From the award-winning novelist & screenwriter, How to Kill a Crime Writer is a funny, mind-bending mystery that will stay with you long after the final page.
Reviews
Praise for Sarah Lotz:
'Hard to put down and vastly entertaining' STEPHEN KING
'A ferociously imaginative storyteller whose twisty plots will kick the stairs out from under you' LAUREN BEUKES
‘Holy s***. This book. I loved everything about it' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'This high-concept thriller is a blast' GUARDIAN
‘An absolutely addictive read … Genuinely unputdownable’ JENNIFER SAINT
'What an absolute joy of a book!' SARAH PINBOROUGH
About the author
Sarah Lotz is a screenwriter and award-winning novelist whose previous work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her last novel, Impossible, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction & the Comedy Women in Print Prize. She lives on the Welsh borders in a suspiciously uneventful hamlet with her family and far too many rescue dogs.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Can a meek woman solve her famous mother's murder with the help of her mother's fictional protagonist? That's the concept of this ambitious but slow-moving whodunit from Lotz (Missing Person). Annie Morrissey, bestselling author of six novels starring hardboiled gumshoe Leah Overton, dies after falling off a ladder at her home in Shropshire, England. Four months later, her daughter, Niamh, a directionless university dropout, moves into Annie's former home. Niamh has mixed feelings about her mother's work—she enjoyed helping out on book tours, but considered Leah to be an idealized version of the daughter Annie wished she'd had. Niamh gets a chance to reconsider her attitude when an apparition in the form of Leah appears in Annie's kitchen and begins conversing with her. In their exchange, Leah asserts that she thinks Annie's death involved foul play, nudging Niamh to help her investigate the neighbors for incriminating evidence. Though Niamh and Leah eventually crack the case, the plot never really heats up, and the ghostly conceit at the center of the novel feels undercooked. This feels like a missed opportunity.
