My Second Death
β Scribed by Cooper, Lydia
- Book ID
- 107716173
- Publisher
- F+W Media
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In Lydia Cooper's wry and absorbing debut novel, we are introduced to Mickey Brandis, a brilliant twenty-eight-year-old doctoral candidate in medieval literature who is part Lisbeth Salander and part Dexter. She lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she never complains about the rain or cold, she rarely eats dead animals, and she hasn't killed a man since she was ten. Her life is dull and predictable but legal, and she intends to keep it that way.
But the careful existence Mickey has created in adulthood is upended when she is mysteriously led to a condemned house where she discovers an exquisitely mutilated corpse. The same surreal afternoon, she is asked by a timid, wall-eyed art student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier. While she gets deeper and deeper into the investigation, she begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection to realityβto her maddening students and graduate thesis advisor; to her stoic parents, who are no longer... Ο‘μ―¦λ
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