Amy Among the Serial Killers

Carla Karolac is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word count, she lives a comfortable, if solitary, life. If only her therapist and retreat participant, Toonie, would stop going on about Carla's nonexistent love life and start addressing her writer's block, she might be able to get somewhere. But then Toonie is found murdered in her own cell, suddenly Carla's memoir is the least of her concerns. Without quite knowing why, she dials an old phone number.Amy Gallup, retired after decades as a writing instructor, is surprised to hear from her former student Carla out of the blue, three years since they last spoke. She's even more shocked when she finds out the reason for Carla's call. Suddenly, she finds herself swept up in a murder investigation that soon brings her whole old writing group back together. But they'll need all the help they can get, as one murder leads to another, and suspicions of a serial killer mount across San Diego.Full of Jincy Willett's trademark dark humor, an unforgettable cast of characters, and two of the most endearingly imperfect protagonists who have ever attempted to solve a murder, Amy Among the Serial Killers shows us what can be gained when we begin to break down our own walls and let others into our lives.as long as they aren't murderers.

“"Wickedly entertaining." -- People "Delightfully mind-bending...a riotous, breathless, winking, strangely feel-good romp." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Willett is a witty and wise writer, and her eclectic characters shimmer with a lively charm despite the devastation in their midst." -- Booklist "Willett's clever latest...all pays off in the end. This is a treat" -- Publishers Weekly "Terrific...culled from the same pop culture sensibility that spawned TV hits like Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building ." -- BookTrib Praise for Amy Falls Down : "I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant and filled with these wonderful insights into the state of publishing and writing and the way we are now. I thought Willett couldn't top Winner of the National Book Award , but I was wrong--this one definitely does." --Nancy Pearl "Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "For anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to be an author, Willett's thinly veiled heroine provides a saucily irreverent look at the writing life." -- Booklist "Hilarious, merciless, entirely delightful." -- Bookpage”

"Wickedly entertaining." --People

"Delightfully mind-bending...a riotous, breathless, winking, strangely feel-good romp." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Willett is a witty and wise writer, and her eclectic characters shimmer with a lively charm despite the devastation in their midst." --Booklist

"Willett's clever latest...all pays off in the end. This is a treat" --Publishers Weekly

"Terrific...culled from the same pop culture sensibility that spawned TV hits like Knives Out and Only Murders in the Building." --BookTrib

Praise for Amy Falls Down:

"I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant and filled with these wonderful insights into the state of publishing and writing and the way we are now. I thought Willett couldn't top Winner of the National Book Award, but I was wrong--this one definitely does." --Nancy Pearl

"Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"For anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to be an author, Willett's thinly veiled heroine provides a saucily irreverent look at the writing life." --Booklist

"Hilarious, merciless, entirely delightful." --Bookpage

JINCY WILLETT is the author of Amy Falls Down, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, Winner of the National Book Award, and The Writing Class, which have been translated and sold internationally. Her stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, McSweeney's Quarterly, and other magazines. She frequently reviews for The New York Times Book Review. Willett spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing.

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