CLAIR’S FAVORITE


Mysterious Press, $22.95 (signed first edition)

This book has gotten more buzz than almost any first novel so far this year, and it’s all justified. In the late 1980s, Madeline Dare, poor cousin of a wealthy WASP family, lives in Syracuse with her husband, who works on the railroad and is inventing a rail grinder. Madeline learns about a long-unsolved murder of two girls when she discovers that her own favorite cousin may be linked to the crime. Sharp, surprising, heartfelt, and both insightful and funny about WASP culture. Act fast - we only have a few copies left!