" A] delightful and eccentric new tale"("The Boston Globe") from
the author of the runaway bestseller "The Jane Austen Book Club"
In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of "The
Jane Austen Book Club" once again delivers top-notch storytelling,
creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is
utterly and memorably her own. "Wit's End" is a clever, playful
novel about finally allowing oneself to grow up-with a dash of
mystery thrown in.
At loose ends and weary from her recent losses-the deaths of an
inventive if at times irritating father and her beloved
brother-Rima Lansill comes to Wit's End, the home of her legendary
godmother, bestselling mystery writer Addison Early, to
regroup...and in search of answers. For starters, why did Addison
name one of her characters-a murderer-after Rima's father? But
Addison is secretive and feisty, so consumed with protecting her
famous fictional detective, Maxwell Lane, from the vagaries of the
Internet that-rumor has it- she has writer's block. As one woman
searches for truth, the other struggles to control the reality of
her fiction.
Rima soon becomes enmeshed in Addison's household of eccentrics: a
formerly alcoholic cook and her irksome son, two quirky
dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, the tiny characters that
populate Addison's dollhouse crime-scene replicas, and even Maxwell
Lane himself. But, wrapped up in a mystery that may or may not be
of her own creation, Rima discovers to her surprise that the
ultimate solution to this puzzle is the new family she has found at
the house called Wit's End.
Playfully exploring the blurred boundaries between reality and
virtual reality, fiction and fact, Karen Joy Fowler subverts the
whodunit and gives us a thoroughly modern meta-mystery with wit,
warmth, and heart.
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