How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
Scream meets 00s romcom in this must-have sexy, funny and scary slasher romance
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Beschreibung des Verlags
‘Fresh, funny and criminally addictive’ HANNAH GRACE
‘I had a blast with this slasher-romance mashup’ ALICIA THOMPSON
For fans of Love in the Time of Serial Killers, Butcher & Blackbird and anyone who's always wanted to see the perfect mash-up of Scream and nostalgic 00s romantic comedies in a book.
When Jamie’s best friend drags her to a speed-dating event, she expects mediocre men and an opportunity to eat her feelings later.
What she doesn't expect is a blackout and for her date to be gruesomely killed at their table. After the lights come on, she sees only more bodies and a group of survivors she suspects the killer could be amongst.
Like every slasher movie she's ever watched and studied, Jamie knows that the rules of making it out alive are simple: don't split up and definitely don't have sex. But that's easier said than done when she finds herself caught in a love triangle with two dangerously attractive strangers.
Nothing speeds up love like fighting for your life and if Jamie's going to get out in one piece, she'll have to figure out who's playing her heart and who's playing to kill.
Speed Dating Trope Sheet
Fatal flirting
Trapped together in a nightclub
Choose the survivor
Readers are OBSESSED with this killer love story
‘This felt like if Scream was a love story and I’m so here for it!’
‘The suspense, the romance, the fear . . . I couldn’t put it down’
‘Packed full of fantastic pop-culture references, an excellent leading lady and plenty of twists and turns’
‘A fantastic tribute to the slasher genre and the final girls we love to root for’
‘It kept me on the edge of my seat and made me seconded guess everything’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Like a rom-com twist on Scream, debut author Thompson's unputdownable slasher-romance mash-up gets a meta edge from protagonist Jamie Prescott's passion for both genres. Jamie, a grad student at work on a thesis about the similarities between horror films and rom-coms, attends a speed dating event at a nightclub with her roommate, Laurie—but the night takes a sharp turn away from romance and toward horror when one of her speed dates is found murdered. The novel plays out over the course of this one violent night, as the remaining attendees realize they are locked in the club with the murderer and fight for survival. It's a gripping and often gory high-stakes drama that still leaves room for romance to blossom between some of the speed daters, including Jamie and cool under pressure Wes. Thompson dextrously balances horror and romance tropes, using Jamie's genre-savvy narration to provide tongue-in-cheek commentary, and opens each chapter with horrific twists on classic rom-com quotes ("When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life killing somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." —Not When Harry Met Sally"). It's pure entertainment.
