TITLE: Dead Pretty
AUTHOR: Samantha Towle
GENRE: Psychological thriller
PUBLICATION: June 25th, 2020
—BLURB—
I'd once believed that nothing would equal the pain of losing my parents.
I was wrong.
I had barely even begun to process their deaths when it started.
The love notes, flowers, gifts … all anonymously left on my porch.
Then, I opened my door to a dead bird.
At first, I thought it had died naturally.
I knew that wasn’t the case when I found my neighbor’s cat the next day.
Then, the murders started.
The victims … women who looked eerily similar to me.
I had a stalker. A murderous one.
And I had no clue who he was.
He never showed me his face.
Not even when he carved his final message into me.
I survived that night. But my life was over. It had ended the moment Tobias Ripley’s infatuation with me began.
So, I changed my name and moved away.
Now, I live a life of solitude. I don’t make connections with anyone.
Until Jack Canti walks into my life with his sharp eyes and easy smiles.
Only Jack isn’t the man he says he is.
And when the murders start again, I’m left wondering if it’s a copycat.
Or worse …
What if Tobias wasn’t the real killer after all … and the murderer has been right here with me all along?
I was wrong.
I had barely even begun to process their deaths when it started.
The love notes, flowers, gifts … all anonymously left on my porch.
Then, I opened my door to a dead bird.
At first, I thought it had died naturally.
I knew that wasn’t the case when I found my neighbor’s cat the next day.
Then, the murders started.
The victims … women who looked eerily similar to me.
I had a stalker. A murderous one.
And I had no clue who he was.
He never showed me his face.
Not even when he carved his final message into me.
I survived that night. But my life was over. It had ended the moment Tobias Ripley’s infatuation with me began.
So, I changed my name and moved away.
Now, I live a life of solitude. I don’t make connections with anyone.
Until Jack Canti walks into my life with his sharp eyes and easy smiles.
Only Jack isn’t the man he says he is.
And when the murders start again, I’m left wondering if it’s a copycat.
Or worse …
What if Tobias wasn’t the real killer after all … and the murderer has been right here with me all along?
—MY REVIEW—
DEAD PRETTY:
Is a full length standalone, psychological thriller by Samantha Towle. Spoken in Audrey’s POV
This book was one of those gems which you rarely come across, it carries you on one path where your all caught up in the feels of a new relationship when out of nowhere it veers off that path right into a wtf did I just read situation and that moment changed the whole story!! This book will keep you on your toes and guessing throughout.
We're introduced to single twenty four year old Audrey, she's newly arrived in the town of Jackson, works as a librarian, and is making this a fresh start and leaving all that she ran away from in the past back in Chicago where she'd barely survived a stalker.
She's changed her name and is trying to put the pieces back together with this new life she's creating, but it's not been easy, she doesn't connect with people, avoids them as much as she can, and is always suspicious of new faces. She has no life and no friends. Always fearing that something bad is going to happen again, daily she checks her apartment and takes every precaution she can by carrying mace and a rape alarm in her hand bag.
A mystery man shows up in Jackson which puts Audrey on high alert, it seems as though he is watching her, he turns up places she goes, to even moving into her apartment block with his cat which always seems to escape finding its way over to Audrey's apartment. A few stilted conversations and one date later leads to her letting down her walls, although unwillingly.
It takes some convincing but slowly she throws caution to the wind and falls head over heels into an unexpected steamy relationship. which slowly allows her to feel safe and secure.
But when it seems as though a copy cat killer is on the loose how long until her happiness is jeopardised again? And will Jack be able to protect her?
This book was one of those gems which you rarely come across, it carries you on one path where your all caught up in the feels of a new relationship when out of nowhere it veers off that path right into a wtf did I just read situation and that moment changed the whole story!! This book will keep you on your toes and guessing throughout.
We're introduced to single twenty four year old Audrey, she's newly arrived in the town of Jackson, works as a librarian, and is making this a fresh start and leaving all that she ran away from in the past back in Chicago where she'd barely survived a stalker.
She's changed her name and is trying to put the pieces back together with this new life she's creating, but it's not been easy, she doesn't connect with people, avoids them as much as she can, and is always suspicious of new faces. She has no life and no friends. Always fearing that something bad is going to happen again, daily she checks her apartment and takes every precaution she can by carrying mace and a rape alarm in her hand bag.
A mystery man shows up in Jackson which puts Audrey on high alert, it seems as though he is watching her, he turns up places she goes, to even moving into her apartment block with his cat which always seems to escape finding its way over to Audrey's apartment. A few stilted conversations and one date later leads to her letting down her walls, although unwillingly.
It takes some convincing but slowly she throws caution to the wind and falls head over heels into an unexpected steamy relationship. which slowly allows her to feel safe and secure.
But when it seems as though a copy cat killer is on the loose how long until her happiness is jeopardised again? And will Jack be able to protect her?
