Serial Killer: what's it about?
Meet Dave. Comic book editor. Avenger of children. Candy addict. Fur-loving freak. Serial killer. Your new favourite person.
It's 1970s London and Dave Maudling, the world's unlikeliest hero, has got punk rock spitting in his face before he's even accepted flares and long hair.
Bullied as a child, he's full of loathing for his young readers. Full of resentment for his handsome assistant Greg. And full of lust for girls' comic editor Joy. Dave consoles himself by sneakily adding lethal information to his comic strips – stuff like bomb-making, and untraceable poison - in the hope that his readers will accidentally top themselves.
But mysterious forces are at work.
Instead of the kids meeting their untimely end, they use the info to take revenge on the abusive adults that make their lives a misery.
And Dave, much to his dismay, becomes their champion.
But then his glamorous dead mum turns up, and wants him to solve her murder. He's probably just imagining her, but she's damn insistent. Besides, he's got a pretty good idea who did it...
Pacy, quick-witted, gleeful and dark, Serial Killer grabs you by the scruff of the neck and throws you into a world where journalists imbibe long liquid lunches, corporal punishment is a fact of life at school, and the kids are striking back...
Serial Killer is the first book in the Read Em And Weep dark comedy thriller series.
Want to know more? Read Chapter One here.