The dead do not improve
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jay Caspian Kang
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780307953896; 9780307953902
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Investigation; Police
Description: On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. Philip only learns about the murder the next day when bored and Googling himself. But when he gets caught up in the investigation he becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme.