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Lady Killer – A Literary Thriller

Published by: Main Street Rag
Release Date:  October 2019

Mitch Lovett, a recently divorced father of two, wasn’t looking for anything serious—but when he fooled around with an old friend, Dee Wynn, serious was what he got. Dee, a thirty-something partner at her architecture firm, has decided that Mitch will be hers, and nothing is going to stand in her way.

But another old friend from college, Gail, has had her eye on Mitch as well—never mind the fact that she’s married, to a jealous, abusive husband, Ed Strickland, who just happens to have received a new gun for his birthday. When Mitch and Gina consummate their long-standing attraction—recklessly following their heart’s desires—they set into motion a series of events with ultimately tragic consequences for all involved.

Set in Takoma Park (a close-knit liberal community that borders Washington, D.C.) among a group of college friends now raising families together, LADY KILLER explores spousal abuse and the ways that both long-standing friendships and marriages can unravel when put to the test. Ultimately, both Mitch and Gail will have to decide who they really are and what they really want—both for themselves and their children.

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Praise for Lady Killer

“Jeff Richards’ LADY KILLER is fast-paced, assured storytelling that dramatically brings us into the intimate lives of couples, now at the edge of their forties, who have been friends since high school in Takoma Park, Maryland, a town at the edge of Washington, DC. Richards’ fluid sentences and evocatively-written dialogue reveal men and women contending with the pressures of marriage and parenthood, with jealousy, anger, and infidelity, and—not least—murder..”

~ Merrill Leffler, Mark the Music

“It’s hard to put LADY KILLLER down. The characters are original yet all too familiar. We recognize friends and spouses, neighbors whom we like and don’t, and we shudder at their actions and frailties. Written with empathy, Lady Killer is exquisitely human, fragile, vicious at times, and kind at others. Jeff Richard’s latest work is a compulsively readable look into our own seamy behaviors and joyous willingness to engage in destructive yet irresistible behavior.”

~ Thierry Sagnier

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