{"product_id":"dont-step-into-my-office","title":"Don't Step Into My Office","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping debut novel of literary suspense and a vivid portrait of wealth's hidden violence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAspiring writer and general layabout Jacob Garlicker doesn't expect--walking along the beach on the night of his twenty-sixth birthday--to witness a murder. After a hapless attempt to help the victim, Jacob decides to forget the incident entirely. And for a while, he does, returning to his bohemian life in NYC as if nothing of consequence had occurred. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeven years later, Jacob is blissfully married. Now \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e sober, and \u003ci\u003emostly\u003c\/i\u003e at peace with his failed writing career, he's feeling alright as he heads to his father-in-law's birthday celebration in the Hamptons, even as he knows the well-heeled WASPs that populate his in-laws' social circle will spend the weekend treating him with polite disdain. Everything shifts, however, when Jacob arrives on Long Island and begins to realize that those well-heeled WASPs are not as harmless as they seem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of this propulsive, at times blackly comic narrative, Jacob wavers between addled narcissism and earnest commitment as he searches for the brutal, booze-soaked truth. Indebted to the suspenseful, page-turning plotwork of Patricia Highsmith and the operatic madness of Dario Argento, \u003ci\u003eDon't Step into My Office\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing literary puzzle.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1648211496\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781648211492\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Fishkind, David, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Jan 2026)","offer_id":45657340838085,"sku":"9781648211492","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781648211492.jpg?v=1768891093","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/dont-step-into-my-office","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}