The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery - An Epitome Apartment Mystery (Paperback)
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The Adventures of Isabel: An Epitome Apartments Mystery - An Epitome Apartment Mystery (Paperback)

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Paperback 288 Pages
Published: 05/08/2021
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Waterstones Says

A pansexual private detective and their sulky cat track down the killer of a sex worker in Dorsey's gloriously witty and playful twist on the noir genre.

Unique crimes call for unique detectives.

When a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex worker - so it is down to our hero and her friends to uncover what happened to her (though not the cat. The cat mainly sulks.)

With humour, sarcasm and a good dose of irony, our protagonist swaggers through the mean streets of a Canadian city tracking down leads to get the bad guy. Aided by a love of mystery fiction the gang dives deep into the underbelly of city life. What at first seems an average street killing is actually the surface of a grandiose and glittering set of criminal schemes...

Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 9781782277392
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'Candas Jane Dorsey's terrific mysteries are what would happen if Raymond Chandler and Frank N. Furter collaborated on cozies and the heroine were a pansexual private detective with heart, smarts, and a T-shirt saying MASCARA IS THE NEW NOIR. There's female bonding, sex (lots of it), and a cat or two. You'll scream with laughter, you'll checkmark phrases. And then, if you're a nice person and love your friends, you'll put these books in their hands and insist they read them too.' - Sarah Smith, author of The Vanished Child

'A little Hammett, a little Hiaasen, a little Lot 49, this is the first book in a series that demands to be read with writerly intention... The author seeks to shake the reader out of submission and into a clearer vision and examination of the underpinnings of the genre - the real crime and grime and meanness of the streets on which it's set. The laughs are thrown in for free' - Janice MacDonald, author of the Randy Craig Mystery series

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