If Books Could Kill
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 21 jul 2026
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- USD 9.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
A NOVEL LOVE STORY meets LOVE IN THE TIME OF SERIAL KILLERS in this rom-com following Roxie Mitchell, an adventure-loving romance reader who finds herself trapped in a meet-cute turned murderous
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favorite author’s next novel, she has romance in mind—namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted and she finds herself swept into a first date with a handsome stranger who seems designed to take her breath away.
Except for one little hiccup: That handsome stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist—but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.
Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So when her escape takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman, an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels, she decides that kidnapping a grown man is a small price to pay for her own survival. Together, Roxie and Grant navigate a madcap story in which the lines between fiction and reality blur. They’ll find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End—or maybe even Happily Ever After.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eberle's entertaining romp of a debut rom-com follows romance fan Roxie Mitchell, who insists she's perfectly happy with her "strictly vicarious" love life: "Romance novels and rom-coms are enough, until, for a brief, stark, usually alcohol-fueled moment, they aren't." Her favorite author is Anna Matthews, and when Roxie makes a wish that she could be the protagonist of Matthews's next novel, she wakes up to find it granted, complete with a nice apartment and a date that night. She doesn't realize that Matthews is trying to pivot into thrillers until her romantic date ends with attempted murder. She hijacks a car to escape—not realizing it's an Uber and there's already a passenger in the backseat. Though far from an adventurer, English professor Grant Hoffman, who loves thriller novels, gets pulled into Roxie's misadventures, helping her navigate a genre she's completely unfamiliar with. The raucous plot takes this charming duo from Boston to London with plenty of danger and meta humor along the way. Complete with a twisty mystery and an abundance of lampshaded romance tropes, this proves unputdownable.
