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New Harvest
July 2013
On Sale: July 16, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0544028589
EAN: 9780544028586
Kindle: B00B77UDXY
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Mystery Private Eye
Vertigo meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist
David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls “one of the
smartest, most stylish writers I’ve ever come across.†Sam Kornberg is a failed novelist living in L.A. with a
collapsing marriage. Desperate for work, he becomes the
assistant to a portly, housebound detective named Solar
Lonsky. His assignment to track a mysterious woman is the
trigger for a tense, smart, and often screamingly funny
story involving sexy doppelgangers, insane asylums,
south-of-the-border shootouts, mistaken identities,
video-store-geekery, and the death of the novel. It’s as
if Tarantino had remade Vertigo after bingeing on Nero Wolfe
novels. Mystery Girl is both an entertaining thriller and a cunning
inquiry into art, style, and deception, by a writer who
Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, has
hailed as “one of the smartest, most stylish writers
I’ve ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work
perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of
real transcendent beauty.â€
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