A is for Answers, what Kat McCann, the novel's teenage protagonist, is desperate to get, specifically answers about her mother’s murder from the man who solved the case, internationally famous detective Alik Lisser.
S is for Secrets, because everyone in this novel has secrets. Kat has secrets. Alik has secrets. There’s even a secret character hiding in plain sight.
S is also for Suspense, as in the growing dread you will feel when you realize just how much danger Kat has gotten herself in.
U is for Undercover, because one of the characters is not whom or what they seem to be...
M is for Massachusetts, the doughnut-kissed state in which most of the novel takes place.
E is for England, the fog-kissed country in which the rest of the chapters of the novel take place.
N is for the Nineties, as in the 1990s, the decade in which our tale of suspense and mystery is set.
O is for Obstinate, because Kat will stubbornly refuse to give up in her search for justice…no matter what.
T is for Tension, close cousin of suspense, here guaranteeing that almost every chapter ends with a cliffhanger.
H is for Humor, an important undercurrent throughout the novel, because darkness without light can be so tedious
I is for Inspiration, as this novel was inspired by and is a tribute to the Golden Age of Mysteries
N is for Nein, which is Alik Lisser's favorite word
G is for Goodreads, which is hosting a giveaway of the novel right here
For a brilliant detective and an avid mystery reader, truth really is stranger—and deadlier—than fiction in a suspenseful and wickedly entertaining novel about the games killers play.
In 1985, Kat McCann was six years old when renowned Austrian detective Alik Lisser solved her mother’s murder. And unfortunately proved Kat’s father as the culprit.
Ten years later Kat is still obsessed with the heroic criminologist. She’s also addicted to the bestselling novels inspired by Alik’s ingenious deductions—penned by the grande dame of whodunits, who’s a bit of a mystery herself. Kat has devoured them all. Even the one based on her father’s crime.
When Kat and Alik fatefully cross paths again, a friendship evolves, and Alik is delighted to share the secrets of his success with such an eager and clever girl by inviting Kat to solve a murder of her very own. One that challenges everything Kat believes about the detective, an elusive author, and Kat’s notorious past.
Now, as fact and fiction and truth and deception collide, it’s all Kat can do to survive the shocking twist ending to her own life story.
Thriller [Thomas & Mercer, On Sale: December 10, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781662523533 / ]
A Uniquely Crafted Cat-And-Mouse Thriller That Packs a Punch
Joshua Corin grew up in Warwick, RI, where he wrote his first short story, a seriocomic missive about a young vampire with a loose tooth, at the age of 8. His first professional success came in 2001 when his feature-length script Windfall won first place in the Open Door Contest co-sponsored by Dimension Films. This helped to secure him an agent and manager, and they in turn assisted in getting his first novel, the screwball thriller Nuclear Winter Wonderland, published with Kunati Books. Nuclear Winter Wonderland later went on to be named by Booklist as one of the top ten debut crime novels of the year.
His next novel, While Galileo Preys, was the first in a series for MIRA Books about Long Island housewife-crimefighter Esme Stuart. Both it and its sequel Before Cain Strikes were optioned by 20th Century Fox TV.
Subsequently, he launched the Xanadu Marx series for Penguin Random House, beginning with Cost of Life and continuing, buoyed by rave reviews, with Forgive Me and American Lies. Around this time, he also delved into video essays, with several of his videos topping over 1,000,000 views, and into writing comics for Marvel.
Realizing that none of his dark, visceral crime novels were appropriate reading material for his nieces and nephews, he tailored his seventh novel, Assume Nothing, more to their semi-sunnier sensibilities. It is available now from Thomas & Mercer.
When not writing, Joshua can be found teaching literature and composition at the Corwin-Russell School, entertaining his cat Princess Tater Tot, and desupplying his refrigerator of its chocolates.
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