{"product_id":"fair-playbooks","title":"Fair Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Louise Hegarty’s genre-splicing debut is a treat—clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death.”—Paul Murray, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bee Sting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that’s an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d’oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else’s heart is broken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the morning, all of them wake up—except Benjamin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother’s death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. In this mansion, suddenly complete with a butler, gardener and housekeeper, everyone is a suspect, and nothing is quite as it seems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill the culprit be revealed? And how can Abigail, now alone, piece herself back together in the wake of this loss?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGripping and playful, sharp and profoundly moving, \u003cem\u003eFair Play\u003c\/em\u003e plumbs the depths of the human heart while subverting one of our most popular genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hegarty, Louise","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mystery)","offer_id":52947700744416,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_80afc2b9-edef-473a-ad31-1cf5233cc8d4.jpg?v=1780505423","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/fair-playbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}