An irresistible murder mystery set at a remote hunting lodge where everyone is a suspect
including the erratic detective on the scene—a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules
of the genre and marks the arrival of a major new talent A thoroughly original suspense novel
that hops across elements of the genre—a diabolical locked-room mystery interspersed with a
fascinating primer on the form—while always being tremendous fun to read.—Chris Pavone
best-selling author of Two Nights in Lisbon An isolated hunt club. A raging storm. Three
corpses discovered within four days. A cast of monied scheming unfaithful characters. When
private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the
exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York he finds himself among a set of
not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake’s
edge hours later a major storm hits. By the time power is restored on Sunday two more people
will be dead. The elements of the classic murder mystery are all present in West Heart Kill
but it’s the daring structure and mischievously subversive narration that set this debut apart.
This is no ordinary whodunit. Both an homage to the masters of the genre and a wholly original
spin on the form it’s a sheer delight from start to finish.
