He Wasn’t There Again Today
An Epitome Apartments Mystery
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Publisher Description
The witty, queer accidental detective of the Epitome Apartments is back. While helping to solve a community murder, she also needs to convince police that she didn’t revenge-kill the man who took everything from her
The nameless amateur sleuth of The Adventures of Isabel and What’s the Matter with Mary Jane? has often said that death is too good for Lockwood Chiles — who is in prison for killing her beloved partner, Nathan, and her close friend Pris — and makes no secret that she hates the man who massacred her shot at happiness. So when Chiles ends up dead in his cell, it’s no wonder she becomes a prime suspect.
Meanwhile, an aggressive band of men in military-adjacent garb turn a string of assaults against nameless’s unhoused neighbors into full-bore murder right behind the Epitome Apartments, and she rashly promises to help bring them to law.
As if that’s not enough, unscrupulous parties are scheming to strip her of her inheritance, money she and Nathan had intended would address the city’s lack of harm-reduction services and low-income housing. Now it is nameless’s mission to clear her name and to hold her tattered community together, all while she’s coming apart herself.
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Dorsey's offbeat third mystery featuring an unnamed Canadian sleuth (following 2021's What's the Matter with Mary Jane?) seamlessly blends left-field humor and quality detecting. A former social worker fired for being queer, the narrator has encountered enough murder cases that she's come to consider herself a Jessica Fletcher "re-imagined for the twenty-first century." She gets involved in another homicide investigation after psychopath Lockwood Chiles, who killed her lover, Nathan Bierce, and her close friend, Priscilla Ann Gill, is found stabbed to death in his prison cell. Her personal vendetta against Chiles makes her the prime suspect, and as she struggles to exonerate herself, she faces down more violence: a homeless man has been kicked to death on the street beneath her apartment, possibly by a band of goons targeting the impoverished, and she determines to track them down. Can she face her grief, clear her name, and bring multiple murderers to justice? Dorsey nails his narrator's voice, buttressing her top-notch sleuthing with cheeky footnotes addressed straight to the reader ("I want you to note that was one hell of a sentence, and still grammatical. Thank you Mrs. Lazarowich, Grade 10"). Admirers of Kinky Friedman's gonzo mysteries will find much to enjoy.
