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Swap out your creepy mansion, wayward cruise ship or lonely overnight train and swap in a rare book library after-hours. Swap out your middle-aged, wealthy, snooty, oblivious, condescending coterie and swap in a roster of smart, confident, go-getter, self-possessed Gen-Z types. Swap out your preternaturally brilliant detective and his fawning, narratively-inclined companion for variegated point-of-view chapters and no investigating centre of gravity.
Good. But somewhere along the line, realize the price paid — handing over an ultimately enviable but so comfortable and so comforting setting, as well as chucking the very idea of fundamental differences of character — simply doesn’t return enough reward. Alice Xue photo Eva Jurczyk worked for the University of Toronto library system before publishing bookish mysteries.
They do say one ought to write about what one knows best, and Eva Jurczyk has already begun to dine out on that. A book-buyer for the splendid University of Toronto .