A journalist with a partly failed career, far away from the place where everything happens, with an average boyfriend and some strategically placed journalist enemies, Kelli Amari is far from living her best life. Oh, and there is also a serial killer whom she visits in prison and develops some unorthodox obsessions about her. She is obsessed by real crime, but does that information serve any practical mean?
As corpses are started to be discovered around her place, the big question cannot be avoided: is she the one who can get away with murder?
How to Get Away with Murder by Tam Barnett is unexpectedly hilarious. The last one can expect in a crime novel, right, but it suits very well the character and the story, and especially the voice of the main character.
The local curiosity and obsession with searching for the culprit may take tragi-comical turns, an example of both provincialism and limitations of the human nature. Thus, in addition to the search for the key of the crime, we are at the same time offered an exposure of a more generic nature that has to do with the human nature in general.
Barnett has an original voice and ideas that makes a difference in the literary landscape of crime writing. I was delighted to discover the book and spend time in its company, as made me think about how many options there are to write a crime novel, including by using the best of dark humour for challenging the ready-made ideas about writing crime novels.
Rating: 4 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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