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An Edgar(R) Award Nominee for Best NovelJesse Kellerman - the international bestselling author of The Executor and The Genius - brings his prodigious talent to bear on a topic he knows well in this hilarious and surprising spin on the modern blockbuster thriller novel. Missing for months after a tragic boating accident, William de Valle, the superstar thriller writer, is pronounced dead. His oldest friend, Arthur Pfefferkorn, receives the news with an unsettling mix of grief and envy. A middle-aged college professor with long-dead literary aspirations, Pfefferkorn can't help but feel outshone by his friend's success - especially since he married the woman Pfefferkorn loved. But now Bill is gone, and Pfefferkorn is there to comfort Carlotta in her time of grief. Reconnecting with de Valle's widow makes more than one of his dreams come true . . . until it plunges him into a shadowy world of intrigue and double crosses, where no one can be trusted - and nothing can be taken seriously.
About the Author
Jesse Kellerman has written dozens of plays and published seven novels, two of them cowritten with his father, Jonathan Kellerman. He has won numerous awards, including the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting ("Things Beyond Our Control") and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle ("The Genius"/"Les Visages") . His novel "Potboiler" was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. An essay, "Let My People Go to the Buffet," was included in Penguin's Best American Spiritual Writing (2011) . His next book, Crime Scene, was also cowritten with Jonathan Kellerman and will be published in fall 2017. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.
