Fair Play

"Abigail hosts a New Year’s Eve murder mystery party at a countryside Airbnb – but in the morning her brother is dead for real. Who killed him? Can a renowned detective solve the crime? Or is it a crime? Is Abigail’s mind playing tricks on her, grasping for all the tropes of a fair play mystery as it seeks comfort and escape from this incredible loss? I cannot believe this clever and ultimately deep story about grief is Louise Hegarty’s first novel: It is a mystery within a mystery within the most existential of mysteries."