Friday, August 26, 2011

The Damage Done / Hilary Davidson / 352 pages / Anthony Award Best First Novel 2011

This debut novel is an awesome page-turner.  Do not even attempt to read it if you have something pressing to do.  It will not get done.  Lilly Moore is a travel writer living in Spain. She has fled her New York apartment which she shared with her heroin-addicted sister, Claudia.  She is called back to N. Y. to deal with the suicide death of this sister.  When she goes to the apartment, she finds it too neat, the clothing in the closet is off, the shoes are not her sister's size, and the body in the morgue is not her sister's.  Who traded identities with Claudia?  And why?  Filled with a multitude of endearing and maddening characters, Damage Done is fast-paced and thought-provoking.

Anthony Award Best First Novel 2011

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