A brilliantly comic and intelligent literary mystery from Karen Joy Fowler, the
bestselling Man Booker shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Oursel
ves. Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers,
family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her
godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer.
Add
ison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon
caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object
from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using
someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship
between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him
in one of her novels? Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon, Sarah Cana
ry, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Besi
de Ourselves and the short story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner p
rize finalist, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and lives in Cal
ifornia.
