The 22 Murders of Madison May
The 22 Murders of Madison May
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Thorndike Press
Annotation: From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality.
Genre: [Mystery fiction]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #342715
Format: Publisher's Hardcover (Large Print)
Special Formats: Large Print Large Print
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Copyright Date: 2022
Edition Date: 2022 Release Date: 02/23/22
Pages: 485 pages
ISBN: 1-432-89439-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-432-89439-9
Dewey: Fic
Dimensions: 23 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews (Thu Aug 04 00:00:00 CDT 2022)

Someone is killing young Madison May-over and over and over again.Though he's endlessly inventive and entertaining, Barry isn't exactly prolific, so it's a welcome surprise to see a new novel arriving so soon after Providence (2020), his diverting space opera. This book isn't completely out of his wheelhouse, featuring as it does some unsurprising rips in the space-time continuum, but it's a little more grounded than usual, closer to a clever riff on unwanted resurrection, à la the movie Happy Death Day. The titular Maddie is a real estate agent in Queens when we meet her, trying to follow her profession's primal rules ("Teeth, Tits, Hair") when she meets potential buyer Clayton Hors, who not only identifies as some kind of otherworldly outsider, but also declares, "You know, I love you, Madison. In every world. Even when you don't love me back." Oh, and then promptly murders her. The only person who thinks this case is wonky is political reporter Felicity Staples of the Daily News, whose situation gets even stranger when a guy named Hugo Garrelly-who looks exactly like Clayton Hors-gives her a strange metal egg right before pushing her into the path of a moving subway train. In subsequent lives, Maddie is an up-and-coming actress or a TV weather girl or a waitress or a student-all ending in her murder by someone who can effortlessly move between the parallel worlds where she exists. Felicity is understandably disoriented when she too starts experiencing these different dimensions, in which her life is just a little bit different every time but she always remembers who and what she was before. It's all very noodle-bending, time-travel–y science fiction, but Barry is playing with a very specific set of tropes, as Maddie notices just prior to one of her many demises: "Oh, she thought. It's a horror movie."A very clever, unpredictable little murder mystery with some bittersweet tones about the things we do for love.

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Kirkus Reviews (Thu Aug 04 00:00:00 CDT 2022)
Reading Level: 6.0
Interest Level: 9+

From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. I love you. In every world. Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her. The man, a stranger, seems to know far too much about her, and professes his love--shortly before he murders her. Felicity Staples hates reporting on murders. As a journalist for a midsize New York City paper, she knows she must take on the assignment to research Madison May's shocking murder, but the crime seems random and the suspect is in the wind. That is, until Felicity spots the killer on the subway, right before he vanishes. Soon, Felicity senses her entire universe has shifted. No one remembers Madison May, or Felicity's encounter with the mysterious man. And her cat is missing. Felicity realizes that in her pursuit of Madison's killer, she followed him into a different dimension--one where everything about her existence is slightly altered. At first, she is determined to return to the reality she knows, but when Madison May--in this world, a struggling actress--is murdered again, Felicity decides she must find the killer--and learns that she is not the only one hunting him. Traveling through different realities, Felicity uncovers the opportunity--and danger--of living more than one life.


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