I just finished reading Death By Chick Lit -- very much recommended! And I would totally say that even if it weren't written by Lynn Harris, she of Breakup Girl. I don't know how she does it, but DBCL is both LOL funny and a good mystery, a send-up of chick-lit publishing and a sort-of chick-lit book.
Lola Somerville has a husband and a new apartment in Brooklyn, but what she really wants is for her novel to make a splash. Unfortunately it hasn't even made a ripple. Then at a book party, Lola finds her author friend Mimi McKee with her throat slashed. When the bodies of It-Girl writers begin to pile up, Lola starts asking dangerous questions: Are the murders connected? Am I next? If not, um, why not? If I solve the mystery, then will my agent remember my name? As Lola digs deeper, the stakes grow higher. Will getting her hands on the killer -- and the book deal bound to follow -- mean losing the people she loves most?
Lola lives in a fictionalized Brooklyn, and part of the fun of this book are the barely-disguised barbs thrown at various trends, authors, events, even neighborhoods. (She and her husband live in the run-down nabe that the real estaters have dubbed "North Wayside" or "NoWay").
Anyway, if you happen to live in Lynn's actual Brooklyn (or even Queens or Manhattan or the Bronx or Staten Island!) you should come by an event this Wednesday at Cocoa Bar ('round the corner from La Casa Everett-Lane) at 8 p.m. where Lynn will be reading and distributing cake to book-buyers. Yum! Details in the flyer posted after the jump.
