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Rima Lanisell's father has died and she moves from Ohio to her Godmother Addison Early in California. Addison is a successful mystery writer, but her fictitious detective Maxwell Lane is even more famous than she is. Addison's books always start with a murder, and before even starting to write she creates the murder scene in a doll house. Her beach house in Santa Cruz is filled with these doll houses.
Rima herself is all consumed with the question "Why?". Most importantly; "Why must she lose everything?". She has lost her entire family and is constantly misplacing things; keys, gloves, shoes... Now she is trying to figure out why Addison made her father not only into a character in one of her books but a murderer.
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I chose this book because I wanted to read something that would be different from what I normally read. And it was different allright, but not in a refreshing way. This book is much too frivolous for me. It doesn't convey any strong emotions, no clear plotline, no beginning and no ending. Sometimes I'd smile thanks to a particular wording or some reference made, but on the whole I have to say that this book has felt like a waste of my time.
I cannot recommend this book.
Karen Joy Fowler has written the following novels:
Sarah Canary (1991)
The War of the Roses (1991)
The Sweetheart Season (1996)
Sister Noon (2001)
The Jane Austen Book club (2003)
The Case of the Imaginary Detective (2008)
(Also published as Wit's End)
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