num_pages: 448
description: Chris Jackson has secrets. A wildly popular author of suspense novels, she hides away in the tiny town of Pyrite, Missouri, where she resides in an old converted storefront and practices breaking-and-entering on local businesses. The town has adopted her as one of its eccentrics, like Victor and Lester, the town’s resident ventriloquist. And Chris is careful to protect that position. She knows she would never be welcome if the town knew the truth about her past.Most of the citizens of Pyrite, happy to claim their very own celebrity, don’t think to question her. Brand new police chief Al MacNamara, transplanted from the mean streets of Chicago, isn’t one of them. He hates mysteries, and Chris Jackson is a mystery.And then, the murders begin. Murders that shatter the little town Chris has come to love. Murders that look suspiciously like those in Chris’s books. Murders that escalate to a grisly stabbing that exactly mimics a story no one could have seen but Chris herself.Chris can no longer hide. With MacNamara’s help, she is forced to delve into the darkest recesses of her past to expose a murderer, a past that is even darker than the streetwise MacNamara could imagine. Does Chris know the murderer? Is a madman stalking her? Or is Chris right to question her own sanity? Could Chris be committing the murders herself?
language: English
title: If Looks Could Kill
titlecomplete: If Looks Could Kill
characters: Chris Jackson, Al MacNamara
genres: Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 804
places: Pyrite, Missouri
publisher: HarperTorch