Some people loved Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club. I wasn't one of them. But I'm still intrigued by her latest, The Case of the Imaginary Detective.
Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses,
lovers, and family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she
goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit
eccentric, mystery writer. Addison'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?
What do you think? Will you be reading this one?
