Description
She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird.
Amber Jamison can’t believe she’s about to become the latest victim of a serial killer. She’s savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she is more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she’s miraculously saved by a mysterious woman . . . who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers?
You’d think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber’s problems are just beginning. Her close call has law enforcement circling a past she’s tried to outrun. She’s forced to flee across the country, ending up at a seedy motel in Las Vegas with a noir-obsessed manager and a sex worker as her unlikely companions . . . and danger right behind. She’s landed in the cross hairs of the world’s most prolific killer, caught up in a deadly game that’s been going on for years. To survive, she is forced to dust off her old playbook and partner with someone she can’t trust. The odds are against her, but sometimes you just have to roll the dice.
My Thoughts
This is the latest selection in Jenny Lawson’s Fantastic Strangelings Book Club and it is a doozy! Crime readers who enjoy quirky, damaged-but-strong female leads will not be able to put this one down.
The first 30 pages of this book are so wild that I was worried the rest would be a let-down, but that is most certainly not the case. Amber, who is caught by a serial killer in the beginning and is so disappointed and angry that she got caught, is the model of a survivor. Her “saviour,” Grace, is also a survivor but of a different sort. Both light up the pages of this unusual story, along with a cast of endearing and colorful characters.
I immediately passed this book on to my daughter, the true-crime fanatic.
What I love about Lawson’s book club is the eclectic selection of titles. I can always count on Lawson to select something that I likely would never pick up on my own, and the reading experience is always worth it. Grab this one for an engrossing read this summer!
Utterly original and wildly entertaining, Killing Me is a laugh-loud-loud thriller with a protagonist whose life is a total mess.
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