I dunno, it’s weird for me to read a book and totally flatline on my opinion of it. It was…fine. Having worked in publishing a lot of stuff rang true, but a lot of the time it also felt like how Emily in Paris is to the reality of living in Paris, like a Sex and the City version of the publishing world. It’s also the second book I’ve read this month that has an author depicted as a socially and physically awkward individual, and in my reality authors were much more normal with it individuals than their publishing world people. It’s weird that the author as a weirdo has become a thing, stop doing that to yourselves people who write.

The mystery was…again…fine. Maybe my opinion is skewed because this is coming from Knopf in the states and it doesn’t feel like a Knopf book. I usually know what I’m getting from a specific publisher or imprint. Flatiron, Mulholland, never lead me wrong. Knopf is usually a little more big literary names, serious literature, where this is super commercial mainstream.

A Novel Murder
by E. C. Nevin

I was invested from the very first chapter. I enjoyed the

Jane Hepburn is a struggling author trying to make it big in the publishing world. Her books aren’t selling and her editor is avoiding her calls. She makes it to the Killer Lines Crime Fiction Festival in hopes of tracking her editor down and instead stumbles upon a very much dead body of literary agent Carrie Marks.

Jane decides to put her sleuth detective skills to use to try and solve the murder along with her new unlikely friends.

I found Jane and all other MC so charming and relatable

5⭐️

A lot of good things about this one. i don't want to ruin anything for you. Just know there is some fun involved.
I enjoyed the presentation overall.
Enjoyable setting.
And the plot was over the top, but in the good way.
Give it a shot.

This somewhat tongue in cheek novel about the publishing industry set within a mystery was one of those books that I skimmed and then wondered why I wasted the time. The character development was poor, the device of the protagonist calling upon her deceased mother was overdone and the novel was poorly written.