The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry, 322 pages
Madison May is a beautiful young real estate agent when a showing goes awry and she ends up murdered in the house she's trying to sell. She's also an aspiring actress who gets murdered in the alley outside her house on the way home from an audition. New York Daily News reporter Felicity Staples is researching the first of Madison's murders when she accidentally slips into a parallel universe and learns about the second murder. Soon Felicity is on a parallel universe-hopping race to keep Madison's obsessed killer from murdering her yet again.
This sci-fi-tinged thriller is gripping and fast-paced, particularly because you're never exactly sure what's going to be different in each world. Sure, the science of the movement between universes is very hand-wavy, but it's still an intriguing premise for a thriller, and a very quick read.
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