Buried Above Ground, by Mike Ripley

I was taken in by the cover–come on, look at it, how could I not? The blurb clinched it, even though it didn’t register on me at the time that the book is narrated in first person. Ah well; live and learn. Beware: references to a character with Alzheimer’s. Buried Above Ground, by Mike Ripley Despite generally reading a lot of mysteries, I had managed until now to remain unaware of the author’s long backlist–34 books published so far, with another to be released in a few weeks, mostly as part of two long-running series. This book, however, appears to be the first in a new series with a somewhat unusual structure: the story is divided in sections narrated in first person, past tense, by a different character each. Here’s how the publisher’s back cover blurb describes it: An original spin on the crime novel in which the race to gain the rights to an author’s backlist proves to be more head-scratching – and deadly! – than the plots in his books.The Librarian It’s been two decades since…