The Gatsby Gambit - Claire Anderson-Wheeler
I wanted to like this and was excited to receive an ARC from the publisher via Netgalley but I'm DNFing at around 15%. No rating because I didn't read it all. Spoilers ahead.
I went into this expecting a murder mystery set in the world of The Great Gatsby, that revisited locations and places from the original novel. I was curious to see how it would integrate itself into the events of the original novel and how the timelines would overlap.
Unfortunately the answer is that they don't. The author has basically thrown out any idea of 'canon' here, so that this really has very little to do with The Great Gatsby at all other than using the names of the characters. The guest of Gatsby who dies at the beginning of this novel is Tom Buchanan, a fairly important character in The Great Gatsby who survives to the end and outlives Jay. If we're killing off major characters from the novel and in the process ignoring the actual events of the novel then I'm not really sure what we're doing here, because it has very little to do with The Great Gatsby itself.
Once it became clear that this was basically just 'AU' fanfiction I lost interest entirely, and I won't be finishing it. I would much rather have read a jazz era murder mystery that had nothing at all to do with The Great Gatsby.
Also, a minor nitpick to end things: at one point Greta buys "that new Agatha Christie novel" and wonders if Christie must be well-traveled, because her stories take place in "such exotic locations". If this takes place in 1922 (which it must do, because Jay Gatsby is alive and has just fired all his staff) then Christie had only published two novels at that point, and they're both set in England.