Silversmith puzzle | Kirkus Reviews

When two women who share a birthday meeting, a journalist becomes the subject of her own mystery for real crime.

On their 45th birthday, Jose Fair and Alix Summer meet in a pub and find that they were born not only the same day but also in the same hospital. Alix is ​​a successful journalist, and Jose convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40. “I see that I may have been used that I may have even been maintained?” She admits to Alix. “But this feeling of being powerful, at the beginning when I still controlled. I sometimes miss it. I really do it. And what I would like, more than anything, is to return it.” From this prerequisite Alix creates a Netflix series, Hi! I’m your birthday twin! Who explores Jose’s life as she reconciles what happened to her as a teenager and is looking for a new path. With the unfinished story, the story unfolds in the present time, with prose that gingley like lyrics: “He turns to see if the girl is behind him, and sees her wish, a wavy wavy, in double vision through the glass windows of the hotel.” Alix is ​​both intrigued and repulsed by Jose, but initially she benefits her from doubt. After all, Alix’s husband, Nathan, has a problem with drinking and Alix knows what it is to be undesirable to leave a bad situation. But Josie seems more interested in being part of Alix’s seemingly glamorous life than in repairing his own, and when three people find themselves dead and Alix’s life is turned upside down, the evidence points to Josie – and turns the television series a mystery of the murder. The transcripts of Alix interviews alternate with the story, offering an increasingly diverse prospects for Jose’s history, as told by her neighbors, friends and family members. With so many versions of events, the final breaks down, leaving readers to decide whose truth is.

It’s hard to read, but it’s hard to look out of sight.