Oh man, what to say about this one? Big points for bringing something unique to the world of mystery, even bigger points for clearly doing a ton of research into the genre and cleverly adding it into the book. However, a big fail for me on the actual meat of a mystery novel. The central mystery was DOA, deadly boring, I kept skimming hoping we’d get the narrator to interrupt the proceedings with more asides about the genre (which happens not infrequently). I was in the author’s corner, hoping this was my book of the year, but I got burned like so many 40s detectives falling for the femme fatale.