Vertigo meets Tarantino in this thriller by Edgar finalist David Gordon, whom Karen Thompson Walker calls Γ’β¬Εone of the smartest, most stylish writers IΓ’β¬β’ve ever come across.Γ’β¬Β
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. ItΓ’β¬β’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 Γ’β¬Εone of the smartest, most stylish writers IΓ’β¬β’ve ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp wit with moments of real transcendent beauty.Γ’β¬Β
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