Riotous and riveting, this is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did not-but maybe did-kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Irby plays with the thriller trope in unimaginably clever ways.
LEE IRBY teaches history at Eckerd College and lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the author of the historical mysteries 7,000 Clams and The Up and Up.
"Creepy, twisted, darkly funny, and totally riveting, Lee Irby's
Unreliable kept me guessing from the first page to last.
You'll be off kilter the whole ride on this tilt-a-whirl of a book,
and you'll enjoy every second."
--Lisa Unger, The New York Times bestselling author of
Ink and Bone
"Lee Irby's Unreliable is just that--a wild ride of a
story you can't trust but won't want to put down."
--Lori Rader-Day, Anthony Award winning author of The Black
Hour "Unreliable is, in truth, irresistible - an impressive
high-wire act of a thriller combining the comic and the tragic in
pitch-perfect style. Think Edgar Allen Poe meets Steve Martin with
drugs, sex, and rock and roll tossed in, or maybe it is Psycho
transported to the lunatic Deep South. Readers will race along,
wondering whodunnit--and sometimes if it was even dun--but by the
time the ride is over they will be laughing too hard to remember
the question."
--Les Standiford, The New York Times bestselling author of Last
Train to Paradise
"A tour de force of unreliable first-person narration . . . The
Tell-Tale Heart meets Lolita."
--The Tampa Bay Times "A quietly simmering tale . . .
Unreliable is paced like a thriller . . . akin to books like
Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys or John Cheever's classic story
'The Swimmer.'"
--The Providence Journal "At once side-splittingly funny and
nerve-wrackingly sinister, Unreliable reads like a whirling
dervish on speed straight through its gasp-inducing conclusion. And
Irby's fevered imagination channels a place in time travel where
Edgar Allan Poe and Tom Robbins might have collaborated in
unexpected harmony."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch "A viciously delicious thriller . . .
Unreliable is tense, hypnotic and elegantly assembled."
--Shelf Awareness
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