The Imaginary Corpse

by Tyler Hayes

Ebook, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

Fic SF Hayes

Collection

Publication

Watkins Media

Description

A dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends. Most ideas fade away when we're done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from?  Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world. But when her father died, Tippy fell into the Stillreal, the underbelly of the Imagination, where discarded ideas go when they're too Real to disappear. Now, he passes time doing detective work for other unwanted ideas - until Tippy runs into The Man in the Coat, a nightmare monster who can do the impossible: kill an idea permanently. Now Tippy must overcome his own trauma and solve the case, before there's nothing left but imaginary corpses.  File Unders: Fantasy [ Fuzzy Fiends | Death to Imagination | Hardboiled but Sweet | Not Barney ]… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MickyFine
In the world of the Stillreal, a place where Ideas like imaginary friends or abandoned novels that are too Real to disappear when their creators give up on them, there are always mysteries small and big to solve. And every Friend in the Stillreal knows your best call is to reach out to Detective
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Tippy, a bright yellow stuffed triceratops with a brain for investigation. But when a new arrival in the Stillreal is permanently killed by a man no one has ever seen before, Tippy isn't sure all his detective skills will be able to prevent more crimes from happening.

The premise of this one is utterly wacky and I utterly adored it. A very noir-ish mystery with a yellow stuffed triceratops who likes to drown his sorrows in root beer is exactly my kind of book. The world-building is creative, the characters are smart and interesting takes on various narrative tropes, and the central mystery is really well done. While there are a few writing style wobbles early on in the book (symptoms of it being a first novel), overall it's a solid read and one I'd recommend if the premise intrigues you.
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Original publication date

2019

ISBN

9780857668325

DDC/MDS

Fic SF Hayes

Rating

(14 ratings; 4.1)
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