Who Killed One the Gun?
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Publisher Description
"THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK OF THE YEAR." —ROBIN SLOAN
A cozy noir for fans of Knives Out!, time loops, and old-time whodunits. Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. But as the numbers and the clues stack up, One the Gun realizes that today is exactly like yesterday—in fact maybe actually is yesterday—and he’s pretty sure that at the end of yesterday he was shot to death. It’s a dilly of a pickle as time continues to loop back on itself, one murder case becomes two, and the gumshoe races against the clock to smoke out his own killer—before that killer can stop his clock for keeps. Gigi Little’s noir-soaked and delightfully surreal debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties and fifties while investigating themes of greed, sexism, and the consequences of unchecked power.
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Little (A Tree of My Own) serves up a cutesy, sci-fi-tinged whodunit starring a PI who investigates his own murder while trapped in a Groundhog Day–like time loop. Private investigator One the Gun is searching for the killer of a man he nicknames Five the No Longer Alive. When the power goes off in One's office building one evening, he heads to the basement to check the fuses, only to be shot—likely by the very killer he was pursuing. But death turns out not to be the end: One goes from bleeding out on the basement floor right back to sitting in his office, beginning the last day of his life all over again. In hopes of breaking the cycle, he interviews bartenders and femme fatales aplenty for clues about who killed him. Little has fun satirizing her 1940s noir influences, but her attempts at hard-boiled prose fall flat (One's paramour, Two the True Blue, has "the kind of beautiful innocence that would make any altar boy give up his ticket to heaven just to steal her lollipop"). The mystery, meanwhile, loses too much steam before the final act. It's an amiable misfire.
