Edited Out (Mysterious Detective Mystery #2)

by E. J. Copperman

Overview

Author Rachel Goldman and her now-living fictional character join forces on a missing persons investigation in this wildly original, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery
 
Mystery author Rachel Goldman is getting used to the idea that her fictional creation Duffy Madison has somehow taken flesh-and-blood form and is investigating missing person cases not far from where Rachel lives. Wait. No. She’s not getting used to it at all, and the presence of this real-life Duffy is making her current manuscript—what’s the word?—lousy.

So she doesn’t want to see Duffy—the living one—at all. To make matters worse, when he shows up at her door and insists on talking to her, it’s about the one thing she doesn’t want to do: Find a missing person. But the man Duffy seeks this time around might be able to solve Rachel’s problem. He might just be the man Duffy was before he became Duffy five years ago. The only problem is she could be letting Duffy lead her into danger yet again...

Entertaining and witty, the second in E.J. Copperman’s Mysterious Detective Mystery series Edited Out will delight his fans, both new and old.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683311317
Publisher:	CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Publication date:	05/09/2017
Series:	Mysterious Detective Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	356,877
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

E. J. Copperman is the national bestselling author of a number of mystery series, including the Mysterious Detective series (Written Out), the Haunted Guesthouse series (The Hostess With the Ghostess, with Jeff Cohen, the Asperger’s series (The Question of the Felonious Friend), and E. J.’s newest, the Agent to the Paws series. It is exhausting for E. J. just to think about it.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Edited Out::
“Copperman’s sequel to 2016’s Written Off manages to keep the quirky conceit of the series fresh and charming...A plot just complex enough to sustain the story keeps the oddball relationship between reluctant Rachel and driven Duffy centered, as the investigation jumps delightfully between bumbling and inspired...Copperman provides a bit of sleuthing and suspense grounded in low-key, character-driven fun.”
—Publishers Weekly

"E.J. Copperman does what he does best, blending suspense with humor...A good entry in a fun series."
—Night Owl Reviews

"You’ll find yourself automatically falling in love (again) with this great duo of writer and her fictional character brought to actual life...Copperman always does a great job, and he continues down that path of greatness with this new story."
—Suspense Magazine

“Every page, and nearly every sentence, of this delightful book is literally laugh-out-loud funny, and the smile almost never left my face for the two days it took me to read it...it is simply terrific, and is highly recommended.”
—Crimespree Magazine

“Copperman has a witty style that occasionally had me laughing out loud.”
—Popular Culture Association

From the Publisher

04/01/2017
Mystery author Rachel Goldman's fictional character Duffy Madison is a missing-persons consultant. Her latest book is giving her some trouble since a real-life police consultant is claiming to be Duffy, insisting that she created him because, like the Duffy of her books, he has no memory before five years earlier. An investigation into his past identifies a man who, like her character, went to the same high school, had the same initials, and disappeared five years ago. Duffy is convinced he was murdered. This sequel to Written Off features the same witty, dry humor.—LH

Library Journal

2017-03-06
A mystery writer continues to be plagued by one of her characters.As Rachel Goldman (Written Off, 2016) continues to insist, she's a mystery writer, not a detective. But that line is increasingly blurred as Duffy Madison, who claims to be the real-world incarnation of her fictional investigator, continues to inveigle her into excursions into his murky past. This time Duffy talks Rachel into traveling to Poughkeepsie, where the fictional Duffy spent his youth, to track down Damien Mosley, who may or may not have been a classmate of Duffy's. (She can't ask Duffy because he insists that his existence started only five years ago, when Rachel began the Madison franchise.) Rachel reluctantly agrees to help, hoping that Damien will turn out to be Duffy, Duffy will somehow regain the lost memory of his earlier life, and she can get back to writing her self-imposed 1,000 words a day. Earlier interviews with Damien's friends, especially Louise Refsnyder, who waited tables at Rapscallion's, where Damien tended bar, and high school classmate Rod Wilkerson, look promising. But the investigation quickly goes south when Duffy concludes that he can't be Damien, because Damien was murdered nearly 15 years ago. Copperman, whose autistic sleuth, Samuel Hoenig (The Question of the Felonious Friend, 2016, etc.) can be quite charming, doesn't yet have a handle on whether to play his new detective straight, fantastical, or just plain nuts. If he doesn't jump soon, his new franchise threatens to go quickly from whimsy to tedium.

Kirkus Reviews