The eighth detective : a novel / Alex Pavesi.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 289 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250755933
- 125075593X
- 8th detective
- 823/.92 23
- PR6116.A94 E54 2020
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Cawker City Public Library | Fiction | New Book Shelf | Fic:Pavesi, Alex | Available | 37430000105938 |
"There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out - calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days. Until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor knocks on his door. Julia wishes to republish his book, and together they must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past, and an editor, keen to understand it. But there are things in the stories that don't add up. Inconsistencies left by Grant that a sharp-eyed editor begins to suspect are more than mistakes. They may be clues, and Julia finds herself with a mystery of her own to solve. THE EIGHTH DETECTIVE is a cerebral, inventive novel with a modern twist, where nothing is what it seems, and proof that the best mysteries break all the rules"--
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