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"Sometimes I wanted to be like Dolly. Sometimes I wanted to hit her with a hoe until she was dead, the way I'd seen Mr. Davis, who lived next door, kill a rabbit he'd caught in his vegetable garden.
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Seven-year-old Andrea is a bright and precocious loner, and wears her shiny patent leather dress shoes even when playing in the dirt, none of which makes her popular with the other neighborhood girls. She doesn't have a dad--something her friends don't let her forget--and her mother makes great cookies, keeps a tidy house, and likes to chop things into tiny pieces with very sharp knives. When Andrea's friend Dolly gets her into trouble, Andrea is punished in ways that would surely make any other little girl cry. But like Rhoda Penmark, everyone's favorite little girl psychopath from "The Bad Seed," Andrea doesn't cry. Andrea gets revenge.
*Kindle version includes excerpts from two of Laura's dark suspense novels, The Stranger Inside, and Bliss House: (Bliss House Gothic Series) The Peter Rabbit Killers originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award- nominated author of eight novels of mystery and suspense, including The Stranger Inside (Publisher’s Weekly starred review), and the Bliss House gothic series. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Strand Magazine, and in numerous anthologies like At Home in the Dark, Dead Ends, and St. Louis Noir. A native of Cincinnati, she lives in Southern Illinois with her family. Visit www.laurabenedict.com to get to know her better.
Genre: Mystery
Seven-year-old Andrea is a bright and precocious loner, and wears her shiny patent leather dress shoes even when playing in the dirt, none of which makes her popular with the other neighborhood girls. She doesn't have a dad--something her friends don't let her forget--and her mother makes great cookies, keeps a tidy house, and likes to chop things into tiny pieces with very sharp knives. When Andrea's friend Dolly gets her into trouble, Andrea is punished in ways that would surely make any other little girl cry. But like Rhoda Penmark, everyone's favorite little girl psychopath from "The Bad Seed," Andrea doesn't cry. Andrea gets revenge.
*Kindle version includes excerpts from two of Laura's dark suspense novels, The Stranger Inside, and Bliss House: (Bliss House Gothic Series) The Peter Rabbit Killers originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award- nominated author of eight novels of mystery and suspense, including The Stranger Inside (Publisher’s Weekly starred review), and the Bliss House gothic series. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Strand Magazine, and in numerous anthologies like At Home in the Dark, Dead Ends, and St. Louis Noir. A native of Cincinnati, she lives in Southern Illinois with her family. Visit www.laurabenedict.com to get to know her better.
Genre: Mystery
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