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Serial Killers with Cookies
Justine Hoffman's parents are dead, and it was cookies that killed them.
Yeah, she knows that sounds like the plot of a kitschy cozy mystery, but it's true: two young women showed up on their doorstep the night they moved into a new town with a plate of cookies and Justine was the only survivor, thanks to her gluten intolerance. Now she's living in small-town North Dakota with her grandparents, hoping that she can at least try to have a normal year.
But when a boy she goes on one date with gets kidnapped, Justine's going to have to confront this. On her side? Adam Ford, who is as small-town North Dakota as you can possibly get, and Lisa McDaniel, who dresses like it's 1957 and listens to music like it's 1999... and maybe someone on the inside, too.
Yeah, she knows that sounds like the plot of a kitschy cozy mystery, but it's true: two young women showed up on their doorstep the night they moved into a new town with a plate of cookies and Justine was the only survivor, thanks to her gluten intolerance. Now she's living in small-town North Dakota with her grandparents, hoping that she can at least try to have a normal year.
But when a boy she goes on one date with gets kidnapped, Justine's going to have to confront this. On her side? Adam Ford, who is as small-town North Dakota as you can possibly get, and Lisa McDaniel, who dresses like it's 1957 and listens to music like it's 1999... and maybe someone on the inside, too.
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Published October 13, 2020
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Aurora Dimitre
39 books154 followersAurora Dimitre grew up in North Dakota and never left. She has held a variety of jobs, her favorite of which has always been ‘library assistant,’ and is currently teaching children about grammar. However, if she didn’t write books all the time, she’d go crazy, which is why we’re here now.
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February 4, 2021
This book was WAY darker than I expected. I mean, I knew the protagonist's entire family was going to be murdered (it's in the teaser on the back), but I think I was expecting more of a heightened dark comedy. Like a Coen Brothers movie or something. But author Aurora Dimitre treats it all as real, psychologically, and by the end the characters have undergone a lot of pretty bleak, devastating things. Tonally I was reminded of Dean Koontz's Intensity, but with hipster elements. (I wasn't annoyed by the hipster-ness. I just mean characters dress in poodle skirts and debate the merits of Courtney Love, even though the book takes place in the era of smart phones.)
The book could have used some heavy editing, though. There is a lot of redundant information and characters explaining things that don't really need to be explained. You could probably cut ten pages out of it without really missing anything; I did a lot of skimming.
The book could have used some heavy editing, though. There is a lot of redundant information and characters explaining things that don't really need to be explained. You could probably cut ten pages out of it without really missing anything; I did a lot of skimming.
September 5, 2020
solid book mate. I'll never look at jello the same again
November 17, 2022
I will say, Justine is one of my favorite main characters I've ever written, just in the terms of character development... I'm excited to see her in print for books 2-4!
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