A review by sharonfalduto
The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert

A gothic novel (I guess; one of these days I'll find out what that means), about a little town in the Midwest that is withering on the vine, and also there's a girl who is either missing or might never have existed, and furthermore there's an addictive book series that is being printed in the little towns printing press, so there's all kinds of plots going on in this slim tome. The author had a nice eye for detail.

And now a minor rant on the subject of books within books--I've always thought this was sort of an easy way out for authors; "hey, I've got this great idea for a book, but I don't want to write it, I'll just write that Kilgore Trout wrote a book with such-and-such a plot!"