Read about another mystery on the list.Fair Play, Louise Hegarty
In Hegarty’s ingenious and deeply felt mystery, a group of friends has gathered at an AirBnb to celebrate, but after a fractious evening, the birthday boy is found dead, casting a group of friends as the closed circle of suspects. The traditional mystery genre is paid its due as a detective arrives, along with a butler and a gardiner, appropriate enough since the friends were celebrating by playing a murder mystery game themselves. The result is a layered meta-fiction that plays out to a surprising and well-earned finish, one of the strongest mysteries start to finish to come around in years.
The Page 69 Test: Fair Play.
Q&A with Louise Hegarty.
--Marshal Zeringue
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