SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. There’s even an old-school comedy of manners as the primary players move among the rooms of the Oso Grande Lodge in search of both a killer and ways to burnish their higher-ed reputations. Miller deftly skewers the follies of academic life while tending a cauldron of tension that eventually reveals the truth behind key characters’ masks. Bonus for avid readers: new insights into classic writers.
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What We're Reading: The Unmasking
Lynn C. Miller's new novel sets a murder mystery in an approximation of Silver City's Bear Mountain Lodge.
By Kate Nelson