ASSUME NOTHING by Joshua Corin is a swift adrenaline kick of a cat-and-mouse thriller featuring a wise-beyond-her-years fifteen-year-old avid mystery reader who tries to outsmart her fallen hero.
It was 1985 when Kat McCannβs mother was killed. She was six years old, and her father was soon convicted of the crime. Now almost ten years later, Kat lives with her aunt and abusive uncle. Crime author Carissa Miller wrote about her parentβs case in her novel Double Frame, which featured a detective based on the real-life Alik Lisser. Alik Lisser solved Katβs motherβs murder by concluding the evidence pointed at her father. Kat has been obsessed with Carissa Miller novels and Alik Lisser for years. Yet, Carissa Miller is now missing. Where did the author go? When Kat gets the chance to attend a criminology lecture by Alik Lisser, she hopes to speak to him about her parentβs case. Kat believes her father is innocent. Yet, when she meets Alik, the phrase βDonβt meet your heroesβ takes on an even bigger meaning. Kat soon realizes she has been thrust into a game that will take all her wits and some help from a few friends to survive the madman and stay out of prison.
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.
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