A good-hearted but hard-luck lawyer with a spiraling personal life intervenes in a mugging, only to wake up in a better world where he has been a worse person in Jason Starr's The Next Time I Die.
Starr writes a classic unreliable narrator noir with a parallel worlds twist. Much like a previous work, Cold Caller, things go from bad to worse to murderous as the lawyer tries to untangle himself from the mess another version of himself got him into.
Starr writes a breakneck genre-bender that doubles down on the nihilism towards the end, making it an offbeat work. This novel came out through the Hard Case Crime line, a reliable source of reading materials for quite a few years.
I checked this one out from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library and read it quickly.
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