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This Book Will Bury Me
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Winstead (Midnight Is the Darkest Hour; The Last Housewife) crafts another psychologically tortuous novel; this one nods to the genre of dark academia and feels like both a satire of and a homage to true crime. On its surface, it’s the story of unsolved murder—the deaths of three college girls in Delphine, ID—and the true crime fans who take justice into their own hands. The compulsively readable story shows how things can be hidden in plain sight, even when the world is watching a crime unfold. Written with footnotes, narrative gaps, and a narrative voice that is unreliable to say the least, the novel spins in unpredictable ways that will keep readers guessing at every police misstep and each personal revelation along the way.
VERDICT Between the cheeky humor of TV’s Only Murders in the Building and the grim, psychological recasting of facts through fiction and memory (as exemplified by Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl), Winstead’s novel breathes life into stories that, the narrator hints, might be better off dead and buried.
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