Publication Date: December 10, 2024
For a brilliant detective and an avid mystery reader, truth really is stranger—and deadlier—than fiction in a suspenseful and wickedly entertaining novel about the games killers play.
In 1985, Kat McCann was six years old when renowned Austrian detective Alik Lisser solved her mother’s murder. And unfortunately proved Kat’s father as the culprit.
Ten years later Kat is still obsessed with the heroic criminologist. She’s also addicted to the bestselling novels inspired by Alik’s ingenious deductions—penned by the grande dame of whodunits, who’s a bit of a mystery herself. Kat has devoured them all. Even the one based on her father’s crime.
When Kat and Alik fatefully cross paths again, a friendship evolves, and Alik is delighted to share the secrets of his success with such an eager and clever girl by inviting Kat to solve a murder of her very own. One that challenges everything Kat believes about the detective, an elusive author, and Kat’s notorious past.
Now, as fact and fiction and truth and deception collide, it’s all Kat can do to survive the shocking twist ending to her own life story.
With the worst moment of her life memorialized in a mystery novel, teen Kat McCann finally has the opportunity to reunite with the Austrian detective who solved the case.
Author Joshua Corin delivers an intriguing story packed with suspense in Assume Nothing. Kat and her aunt travel to London to visit Alik Lisser.
Truth and fiction collide as Kat delves into the life of the vanished mystery novelist and Alik’s fictional counterpart, Adrian Lescher. Meanwhile, she also receives access to the case notes relating to her mother’s murder.
It’s been almost a decade since it happened, but the more she digs, the more questions Kat has. Could there actually be a more sinister scenario in play?
Assume Nothing offers a true whodunit led by a curious teen who matches wits with a master of deception.
Joshua Corin is the author of the Xanadu Marx series, the Esme Stuart series, and six Deadpool graphic novels for Marvel Comics, among many others. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Joshua currently lives with his cat, Princess Tater Tot, in Atlanta, Georgia.
