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One dead body. Seven mystery writers who all know how to get away with murder. In this wickedly clever whodunit from the bestselling author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, the only thing harder than writing the perfect plot twist . . . is surviving it.
Synopsis
If you want to write a murder, you have to set it in the right location—like an old, converted monastery with an ominous past, hidden deep in the mountains. Then, you have to invite the right people—like a group of authors attending a prestigious mystery-writing conference.
Of course, someone should show up uninvited—like a disgraced literary agent accused of stealing from his top client. Everyone in the story must be hiding something so they can all become suspects when someone ends up dead. That’s when they’ll turn on one another, digging into the past to uncover dark truths—like a book canceled on the eve of publication, two million dollars in missing royalties, and an obsessive fan with a hidden agenda.
But don’t forget to trap everyone there—a landslide should do the trick—so they can’t escape when more people turn up dead. . . .
Welcome to the perfect murder. Nothing will go wrong. Because if anyone can get away with murder, it's a writer.
Review:
It appears that there will be a lot of books coming out in the fall that are referencing Agatha Christie's paradigm book, And Then There Were None. In this book, the twist is that the reader gets to experience everything from each of the characters perspectives and from the author. But are they just characters in a book, or is the author actually a suspect who has designed and is carrying out murders in real life? As each of the characters wonders who knows their secrets, and who could be the suspect, they purposely lie to each other and unknowingly help the author out. There is also a book within a book as the characters realize that the author is following a traditional mystery format. So when they go off of the plot sequence, suddenly everything is in chaos. Good luck trying not to read this in one sitting, is this page turner gains momentum with each chapter. I can see this one easily being turned into a movie, or Netflix serial. You'll be casting this one in your head as you read, guaranteed! So don't miss this one, it's soon to be talked about!
About the Author:
Jessica Brody is the author of the number-one-bestselling novel-writing guides Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and Page One to Done as well as more than twenty novels for teens, tweens, and adults including The Geography of Lost Things, The Chaos of Standing Still, Amelia Gray Is Almost Okay, A Week of Mondays, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, the Unremembered trilogy, and the System Divine trilogy, which is a sci-fi reimagining of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, co-written with Joanne Rendell. Jessica’s books have been translated into and published in over twenty languages and several have been optioned for film and television. She’s the founder of the Writing Mastery Academy and lives with her husband and dogs near Portland, Oregon
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