Patrick Carey

And I feel like Death in Her Hands is another example of that.

Well, that's right.

I mean, one of the things that's really interesting about this book, and I think quite a few reviewers have commented on this, is that in some ways it starts as a very conventional response

mystery you know walking the dog early in the morning in the misty woods it sounds like every crime novel we've ever read or every crime tv show we've watched but again moshe's strange prose kind of dislocates you and i mean the those sort of questions the ones that you are asking kind of continue to crop up throughout the book you're never quite sure where you are or why things are happening but the main character vesta is as confused as us i think

That's right.

And, I mean, I think the biggest question mark, right, is the fact that there's no dead body to be seen.

So there's a note promising a dead body but no delivery.

gently interior but then they're also we're building up this woman's life aren't we yeah and i think the important thing about her as a character is that her dog charlie is really the only person that she talks to so like you said she's new to the area it's she's it's somewhere in middle america it's a

mentions of poverty and drug addiction and the landscape sort of imply that we're somewhere in middle America.

She's moved from the East Coast and she's really a classic Mosfet character in the sense that she's almost exclusively alone throughout this whole book.

So these clues are coming from the outside world, but everything is 100% filtered through her.

I agree.

I was speaking to someone about

Mosvick in general, and they described her prose as something that you can drink like water.

But perhaps it's water with something dissolved in it that you shouldn't be drinking.

I'm not sure.

But yeah, again, it's this mysterious sort of gripping nature of the way that she writes.

I mean, I think one of the things that's really interesting about this book is that there is never any easy answer offered.

Everything is a hypothetical and

A lot of this book takes place in Vesta's imagination.