ISBN: 0-88739-159-1
180 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Death of a Dad
Jake Fuchs
"Caleb's Dad. He's all bloody on the corn meal table!" Thus is announced the murder in
Death of a Dad. Hoping to restore the serenity of her calm and happy Berkeley nursery
school, Maren, a mild-mannered teacher married to a grouchy English professor, becomes
an unwilling amateur detective. When the murderer claims two more victims—a gloomy
clown turned porno actor and a mom with a double life—Maren must clear her colleague
Judy's good name by investigating the nursery school's moms and dads. Maren's search
for the killer teaches her more than she ever wanted to know about the fissures and fault
lines running through the lives of these comfortably-off, Volvo-driving Berkeley
professionals—and through her own life and marriage as well.
Droll and beautifully observed, in an elegant, offhand style that mimics the shorthand of
thought, Death of A Dad pokes sly fun at adults while keeping a clear and unsentimental
eye on the children.
Review: "Skewers the egotism of the misbehaving adults of Berkeley, California... very funny in places and much of the humor involves sex."
Publisher's Weekly
"Like any terrific murder story, Jake Fuchs' Death of a Dad is as much about the life surrounding death as the crime itself. 'Whodunit' keeps the pages turning, but the circus of trendy cannibalism along the way pleased me the most."
Darcy O'Brien
1996 Edgar Award-winner for Power to Hurt
"Death of a Dad is a crime novel with a difference-the difference being Jake Fuch's eye for comic detail and his ear for edgy dialogue between marriage partners who are also sparring partners. Whether or not you like whodunits, this one is good, dirty fun."
Frederick Crews
Author of The Pooh Perplex and The Memory Wars
Bio: JAKE FUCHS has published short fiction and reviews of fiction, written extensively on eighteenth-century British satiric literature, and worked as a writer and performer in the video and voice-over businesses. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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