“An Exaggerated Murder,” the debut novel from longtime bookseller and former Lewiston resident Josh Cook,  is discribed by publisher Mellville Books, as a “wickedly funny spoof of the traditional detective novel, complete with fedoras, fight scenes, and characters like “The Man with the Facts” and “The Butler: … always delivered with a sly wink to the reader.”

Cook is a former Lewiston resident and Lewiston High School graduate who is currently a bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass.  His fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and journals.

The book was Kirkus Review’s “indie pick” for the month of March. Among their comments, “the writing throughout is so crystalline, the dialogue so acerbically funny and the characters so engaging as to make the pages seem as though they’re turning themselves.”

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