{"id":2746,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2746"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"wrongful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"WRONGFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Geneva Finch, 20, is on the beach near the festival celebrating novelist Mira Wallacz, who has just gone missing. She overhears Mira\u2019s unauthorized biographer, a purported longtime friend, and a jealous-seeming literary rival discussing Mira; one comments that she \u201cstirred a lot of unconscious anger.\u201d Geneva, who came to the conference due to an affinity for Mira\u2019s \u201clurid fairy tales for adults,\u201d later wanders into the nearby woods and spots Mira, yet the latter refuses to return to the festival despite Geneva\u2019s sense of danger. The narrative then jumps ahead 10 years, and readers learn that Mira was found dead, killed by falling or thrown rocks shortly after Geneva left her (\u201cMost likely Mira Wallacz died in a freak accident. Falling rocks. A simple explanation exists for most things. That made sense, didn\u2019t it?\u201d). At a party, Geneva meets and dances with Thom, whom she later learns is the priest who inherited Mira\u2019s estate, subsequently left the priesthood, and now writes poetry. Geneva tracks down Thom at a poetry workshop and convinces him to attend an upcoming conference commemorating Mira and help interview its attendees, including Mira\u2019s agent. Geneva discovers that many people had possible motives to kill the author\u2014including Thom (\u201cIt\u2019s always about the one with the quirkiest motive in Mira\u2019s novels. That\u2019s where I\u2019ll look\u201d). Upton\u2019s novel operates quite effectively as an Agatha Christie\u2013like whodunit, complete with a lineup of colorful suspects and a twisty conclusion. The narrative is further enriched by the author\u2019s musings upon the illusory aspects of real life and fiction\u2014Geneva reflects that \u201cthe past ten years had been a long dream of guilt, a repetitive dream, and here was a way to rupture the dream.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva Finch, 20, is on the beach near the festival celebrating novelist Mira Wallacz, who has just gone missing. She overhears Mira\u2019s unauthorized biographer, a purported longtime friend, and a jealous-seeming literary rival discussing Mira; one comments that she \u201cstirred a lot of unconscious anger.\u201d Geneva, who came to the conference due to an affinity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}