Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers, and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stories.
At the B&N Reads blog he tagged six novels "that have been published and praised despite the fact that they’re clearly unfinished," including:The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon unfolds The Crying of Lot 49 like a detective novel. Along the way





