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Wit's End : A Novel by Karen Joy Fowler is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wit's End : A Novel about?
This “delightful and eccentric new tale”(The Boston Globe) from the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club subverts the whodunit and gives us a thoroughly modern meta-mystery with wit, warmth, and heart.At loose ends and weary from her recent losses—the deaths of an inventive if at times irritating father and her beloved brother—Rima Lansill comes to Wit's End, the home of her legendary godmother, bestselling mystery writer Addison Early, to regroup...and in search of answers. For starters, why did Addison name one of her characters—a murderer—after Rima's father? But Addison is secretive and feisty, so consumed with protecting her famous fictional detective, Maxwell Lane, from the vagaries of the Internet rumor that she has writer's block. As one woman searches for truth, the other struggles to control the reality of her fiction. Rima soon becomes enmeshed in Addison's household of eccentrics: a formerly alcoholic cook and her irksome son, two quirky dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, the tiny characters that populate Addison's dollhouse crime-scene replicas, and even Maxwell Lane himself. But, wrapped up in a mystery that may or may not be of her own creation, Rima disco
Who reads Wit's End : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Karen Joy Fowler
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult; G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781436211086
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
- Rating
- 2.73 / 5 (1,018 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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