A Shortcut to Paradise
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilarious murder mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The murder of popular novelist Marina Dol on the very evening she receives the coveted Golden Apple Fiction Prize in Barcelona sets the stage for Solana's outstanding second mystery featuring unlicensed (and untrained) nonidentical twin detectives, Borja Masd u and Eduard Mart nez (after 2008's A Not So Perfect Crime). The arrest of Dol 's bitter rival, Amadeu Cabestany, quickly follows. Cabestany's literary agent hires Masd u and Mart nez to either prove Cabestany innocent or find the real killer. Solana brilliantly skewers the authors, agents, and critics who compose most of the suspects as well as the literary prizes they fight over. The odd but innocent Cabestany finds unexpected notoriety in prison while the detectives try various ploys, including a gathering of suspects la Agatha Christie. A delightfully droll double-barreled denouement provides a perfect ending to this romp, which should earn its author consideration for the kind of award she so cleverly lampoons.
