Friday, December 13, 2024

FFB: DIE A LITTLE, Megan Abbott

 

Hard to believe this book will be 20 years old in 2025. We were on Cape Cod when we got the call from Megan saying Simon and Schuster had bought the book. The first agent she sent it to took it and the first publisher he sent it to took it. She wrote the book as a distraction from writing her Ph.D, (THE STREET IS MINE, Palgrave Press).

I love reading this book because it reminds me of Megan, the girl. It's the story of a school teacher who worries that her brother (a detective of sorts) has gotten mixed up with an evil woman. And in her investigation ( a little Nancy Drewish) gets mixed up with a bad man herself. It has a lot of the themes Megan loves: Hollywood, betrayal, femme fatales, lust. And the love of a brother is a big part of it.

If you haven't read it, it's a lot of fun.

5 comments:

Margot Kinberg said...

Ah, this is a great book, Patti! Expertly done, and such a sense of place and time as well as psychological suspense.

Jerry House said...

Megan's books are not always great fun but they are always worthwhile and a cut well above most of the herd. Talent runs deep in the Abbott family.

pattinase (abbott) said...

Thanks!

Kevin R. Tipple said...

So very cool.

JJ Stickney said...

Such a great book, a reread almost every year.