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Madison May is just showing a house to a client when he tells her he loves her. He also somehow knows a lot about her. It’s very weird. And then he murders her.
Felicity Staples doesn’t usually cover murders, but she gets tasked with reporting on Madison’s. It turns out to be a lot more complicated than she could have imagined. When she sees the man who had to have been the killer on the subway, she is mystified when he just disappears. Then another man hands her a little egg, telling her to take care of it, and not long afterwards, she notices that some important details of her life aren’t lining up. One of her cats is missing; no one has heard of Madison. Her live-in boyfriend is acting a bit different.
It turns out that the “egg” she was handed enabled her to move into an alternate dimension. And she learns that the man who killed Madison May is hunting her down in multiple dimensions. Felicity no longer wants to report on the murder; she wants to stop it from happening in other worlds. She’s facing danger on various sides, and every world she goes to means more changes in her own life. But she’s determined to save Maddie. Then, once Maddie is safe, Felicity will have to figure out how to settle down into a world that’s not her own but at least as close as she can find to what she had before setting out on this crazy quest.
The 22 Murders of Madison May is a fun and smart multiverse thriller book. The science fiction genre features the subgenres of time travel and multiverse travel, and I’m a fan of both of them. This one makes for a page-turner that kept me thinking. Entertaining.
Rated: High. Profanity includes 50 uses of strong language, 50 instances of moderate profanity, 10 uses of mild language, and 20 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content is minimal; there are a few kisses. Violence includes several murder scenes in which a character or a few characters are stabbed. They aren’t very detailed or graphic. A few places, there are mentions of blood and it being on clothing or floors/walls.
