If Books Could Kill
The hilarious, laugh-out-loud bookish romance perfect for your summer reading pile
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- 95,00 kr
Publisher Description
THE HOTTEST BOOK OF 2026! Discover your new summer holiday reading obsession, IF BOOKS COULD KILL...
'Wildly entertaining' WOMAN & HOME
'Funny and charming'
Tasha Coryell, author of Matchmaking for Psychopaths
'The genre mashup we all need'
Asia Mackay, author of A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage
She thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie?
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite 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 by a mysterious busker, and she finds herself swept into a fairy tale first date with a dashing stranger who seems destined to take her breath away.
Except for one little hiccup: that dashing 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 from a potential murderer takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman — an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels — she decides a little light kidnapping is a small price to pay for survival.
Together, Roxie and Grant team up to navigate a madcap story where the lines between fiction and reality blur and find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End — or maybe even Happily Ever After.
Perfect for fans of THE FLAT SHARE, IN FIVE YEARS, A NOVEL LOVE STORY and movie hits THE LOST CITY and HIT MAN
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.
