Additional Attendee: a Paul Whatshisname Mystery

“A witty mystery expertly balancing suspense, emotion, and a Brooklyn murder. Even readers steeped in the genre will find the ending a dazzling surprise with real emotional resonance.” – BookLife (Editor’s Pick)His neighbor is dead. His wife is missing. At least there’s a pool on the roof.“A diverting whodunit with an unconventional sleuth. Harper does a deft job of producing red herrings that will misdirect even the savviest of armchair sleuths.” – Kirkus ReviewsPaul, a part-time actor and full-time egoist, just knows that his wife is having an affair with the dog trainer who lives in their luxury apartment building. But when he tries to catch them in the act, he finds their neighbor’s corpse instead. And now he can’t find his wife anywhere.With only the building’s alluring front desk woman willing to help him, Paul must find the killer before the cops pin the murder on him. Soon, he discovers that his fellow over-privileged tenants aren’t as bland as their jobs in digital marketing suggest, and he is drawn into a hidden world of greed, lust, and misused animal narcotics. But Paul’s biggest obstacle to solving this mystery lies within himself. Can he stop lying, navel-gazing, and indulging in his own depression long enough to do some actual detective work? Or is the pool on the roof too damn enticing?While serving up a whodunit in the vein of Anthony Horowitz’s Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Additional Attendee delivers comedy similar to Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone.