Unreliable

Riotous and riveting this is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did notbut maybe didkill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Irby plays with the thriller trope in unimaginably clever ways.. Edwin Stith a failed novelist and college writing instructor in upstate New York is returning home for the weekend to Richmond Virginia to celebrate his mother''s weddingto a much younger man. Edwin has a peculiar relationship with the truth. He is a liar who is brutally honest. He may or may not be sleeping with his students he may or may not be getting fired and he may or may not have killed his ex-wife a lover and his brand-new stepsister. Stith''s dysfunctional homecoming leads him deep into a morass of long-gestating secrets and dangers of old-flames still burning strong and new passions ready to consume everything he holds dear. But family dysfunction is only eclipsed by Edwin''s own leading to profound suspense and utter hilarity. Lee Irby has crafted a sizzling modern classic of dark urges lies and secrets that harks back to the unsettling obsessions of Edgar Allan Poewith a masterful ending that will have you thinking for days.