Author Alex Pavesi has written a new mystery novel, Ink Ribbon Red.
Using the mystery within a mystery theme, Pavesi keeps the reader guessing which is reality and which is fiction throughout the novel. The reader is introduced to six friends together for a weekend at a country house. The friends have a web of thin strands that interconnect them to each other. Each has a secret to protect.
They come together for a yearly gathering this time to celebrate Anatol’s 30th birthday. He introduces a game he invented called “Motive, Murder, Death”. He asks each person to write a short story about one of the other friends committing a murder of someone else in the group.
This is the confusing part of the book, where the stories each character is writing are mixed in with what is happening between the characters at the get together. The author purposely has blurred the lines between what is reality and what are the stories being created. Using the unreliable narrative keeps the reader guessing until the end.
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