(1981–)
“Elmore Leonard said it’s bad style to open a book with the weather. Well, fuck him — it was blazing hot.”
— the opening line of This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us
San Francisco private eyes ADRIEN KIMREAN and ZOE KIMREAN are brother and sister detectives. Sibling sleuths. Twins, in fact.
Not very common, but not unheard of.
The catch is that A.Z., as they’re collectively known, share one body.
ONE!
One, skinny, scrawny androgynous body. Straw-colored hair. One brown eye. One green eye.
That’s the over-the-top premise of This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us (2018), a cheeky, irreverent, genre-and gender-bending gut punch that spills out in a he/she/they said police interrogation by Detective Ted Des Moines, in the bloody aftermath of the twins’s investigation into the murder of several drug cartel members.
A and Z work out of a dump of an office in Fisherman’s Wharf, and — surprise, surprise, they don’t always see, uh, eye to eye. He’s the calm, rational, pragmatic one. A cautious intellectual. Her? Not so much. She’s a wild child, impulsive, and much more hands-on, ready to party, or to take action — and kick ass if need be.
Yeah, it’s crazy, it’s violent, it’s subversive, it’s arguably disrespectful, and almost guaranteed to push buttons. It may also blow your mind and even let out a chuckle or two. The New York Times says, “a bold, tautly crafted novel about family, being weird, and claiming your place in your own crazy story.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling cartoonist, screenwriter and author Edgar Cantero may have been born in Barcelona, and his mother tongue may be Spanish, but he nails American pop-culture right to the wall. Previous books include his 2007 debut Dormir amb Winona Ryder (aka “Sleeping with Winona Ryder“), Vallvi (2011), The Supernatural Enhancements”(2014), and Meddling Kids (2017), a cock-eyed horror/ thriller about four former teenage sleuths and their dog who reunite years later — an obvious and affectionate riff on Scooby Doo. Cantero currently lives in Brooklyn.
NOVELS
- This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us (2018) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- Four Eyes: Twin Private Detectives
A short list of other twin P.I.s.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
