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By Richard Lipez
April 18, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. PDT
Escape to California, Lebanon, Connecticut, Provence and not-so-merry England in these five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers. Sure, readers will find plenty of danger, intrigue and suspense in these pages, but it’s all at a comfortably safe distance.
"The Anatomy of Desire," by L.R. Dorn
Among the career possibilities my high school guidance counselor never mentioned to me some years back was “social media influencer.” This peculiar phenomenon is at the center of L.R. Dorn’s spicy update of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 classic, “An American Tragedy.” In the original, social-climbing Clyde Griffiths is accused of drowning his pregnant girlfriend so he can marry a socialite. In the version by Dorn — pseudonym of Los Angeles husband-and-wife screenwriting team Matt Dorff and Suzanne Dunn — “fit-fluencer” Cleo Ray is charged with killing her lesbian lover so she can move up the social scale with male “sports brand ambassador” Sandy Finch. The novel is written in the form of a docuseries like “Serial,” and like that cool potboiler, “The Anatomy of Desire” cruises along with nary a bump in the road. (Morrow, May 11)
April 18, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. PDT
Escape to California, Lebanon, Connecticut, Provence and not-so-merry England in these five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers. Sure, readers will find plenty of danger, intrigue and suspense in these pages, but it’s all at a comfortably safe distance.
"The Anatomy of Desire," by L.R. Dorn
Among the career possibilities my high school guidance counselor never mentioned to me some years back was “social media influencer.” This peculiar phenomenon is at the center of L.R. Dorn’s spicy update of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 classic, “An American Tragedy.” In the original, social-climbing Clyde Griffiths is accused of drowning his pregnant girlfriend so he can marry a socialite. In the version by Dorn — pseudonym of Los Angeles husband-and-wife screenwriting team Matt Dorff and Suzanne Dunn — “fit-fluencer” Cleo Ray is charged with killing her lesbian lover so she can move up the social scale with male “sports brand ambassador” Sandy Finch. The novel is written in the form of a docuseries like “Serial,” and like that cool potboiler, “The Anatomy of Desire” cruises along with nary a bump in the road. (Morrow, May 11)
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