![]() ![]() Who in the world doesn’t like a murder mystery, especially one that goes beyond the rote formula of: murder occurring, detective arriving, clues discovered, murderer revealed? My Murder indisputably upends the traditional format while delivering the excitement and mystery we’ve come to expect from the genre. This one is not to be missed! –EF Katie Williams, My Murder In doing so, she reveals more about humanity than most writers could in a lifetime. ![]() Erpenbeck’s novels use finely observed (cool, unsentimental) personal relationships as lenses that provide panoramic views of broader society-her novels are as much about history, time, and place as they are about the characters that inhabit them. ![]() The story follows 19-year-old East-Berliner Katharina and her affair with an older, married writer, Hans, against the background of the declining GDR. In June New Directions will publish Kairos by the brilliant Jenny Erpenbeck. In Cosby’s latest, the first Black sheriff of a small Southern town investigates the murder of an unarmed black man and finds himself uncovering dangerous secrets about the very foundations of his community. Cosby is awesome and his new book is bound to be awesome too. Why isn’t this one on Netgalley yet, she cries into the abyss? Anyway, despite my lack of access to this book at the moment, I can assure you that S. ![]()
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