![]() That's why I missed Nita Prose's mega bestselling cozy debut called, The Maid, when it came out nearly two years ago. For instance I know that given a choice, I'll pass up a cozy mystery and reach for the hard stuff. Instead of writing a coy send-up of a theatrical thriller, she's written a genuinely disturbing suspense tale that explores the theater of cruelty life can sometimes be.Ĭritics should be aware of their biases. Soloski, too, might have played it safe, but, fortunately for us readers she didn't. Maybe Vivian should have played it safe and contented herself with writing snarky reviews of the Rockettes holiday shows. Is this just a series of unfortunate events or is something more sinister going on? Vivian starts investigating on her own, which puts her in the sights of Russian mobsters and a sexually vicious police detective who could have been cast in Marat/Sade. Instead, she becomes a person of interest to the police after that grad student vanishes and she discovers the corpse of a stranger in a nearby park. When a graduate student requests an interview with Vivian and her participation on a panel on criticism, Vivian thinks this outside validation may just tip the odds for promotion in her favor. The position of chief critic at the magazine has become vacant and Vivian is competing for it against a likeable colleague whom she describes as having "a retina-scarring smile, and the aesthetic discernment of a wedge salad." Vivian's notorious prickliness, however, may be her undoing. ![]()
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