Louise Hegarty’s Fair Play
Ok, so I think this book is targeted at people who a) LOOOOOOVE golden age mysteries and will catch a bunch of lil references to Christie and Sayers (me), and b) people who like when their fiction gets a little meta (also me). The story is this: a young woman gets an AirBnB for the annual NYE/murder mystery/birthday party for her brother and all their close friends are there and it’s great. But the next morning, her brother is dead. And from there, every other chapter is a golden age style mystery where a renowned detective has come to solve the case, of course following all the rules of the genre. And the other half of the story is a young woman dealing with her grief. Really excellently done. Like clearly I am the target audience for this but I’m also just like slow clapping about it. A.
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