FUCK THIS MURDER
FUCK THIS MURDER is the first book in a fun, slightly foul mouthed mystery series.
FUCK THIS MURDER captures the LGBTQIA-friendly warmth, camp, and camaraderie of Dan Levy’s SCHITT’S CREEK and the dark humor, twists and suspense of Elle Cosimano’s FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT, combining them with the realistic and witty portrayals of being autistic and living with chronic illness in Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sisters romantic romps.
Autistic, divorced, and chronically ill Maggie Livingston just wants a 5-star review for her new Bed and Breakfast that will save her family’s beautiful Victorian home, but her murdered guests and a plague of unexplained accidents keep getting in the way. It doesn’t help that Maggie’s guests for a high-stakes week of wedding festivities are her old high-school nemeses and there’s a sweltering heat wave gripping their touristy mountain town. Or that she still has feelings for her ex-girlfriend Alice, the local game warden who is currently dating one of the wedding party. To make matters worse, the morning the wedding guests arrive, Maggie’s first guest inconveniently dies upstairs while the hotel inspector conducts his final tour. Maggie and her best friends Mia and Sutton stash the body, but the mystery remains, and chaotic mishaps abound. In the wake of food poisoning, a collapsing dock, rogue alligator, and a swarm of bees flying out of a disco ball at the roller-rink, it will be a miracle if Maggie can keep it together until her big payday at the end of the week, pay her mortgage, and save her guests from a murderer.
Similar novels: FINLAY DONOVAN SERIES; EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES; DIAL A FOR AUNTIES; THURSDAY MURDER CLUB. Similar shows and movies: KNIVES OUT; ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING; BAD MONKEY
FUCK THIS MURDER is the first book in a fun, slightly foul mouthed mystery series.
FUCK THIS MURDER captures the LGBTQIA-friendly warmth, camp, and camaraderie of Dan Levy’s SCHITT’S CREEK and the dark humor, twists and suspense of Elle Cosimano’s FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT, combining them with the realistic and witty portrayals of being autistic and living with chronic illness in Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sisters romantic romps.
Signe and I grew up watching Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple, and when CLUE came out, we were sold on "cozy" mysteries. We raised our kids with PBS in the background, and we are rather proud to say that by grade school, they knew multiple ways to quietly kill a person, could identify many poisonous plants from the Victorian Era, and could spell "Garroted" with the best of them. What was missing in these shows and novels back then, and even now in most books, tv shows, and movies, are main characters that are disabled, queer, and/or neurodivergent. We wrote FUCK THIS MURDER for ourselves, for our neurodiverent, chronically ill kids, and for everyone who wants to see disabled, queer, and neurodivergent main characters like themselves on the page, Scoobie-doin around and solving crime.
INSPIRATION FOR FUCK THIS MURDER
So, the initial concept for FUCK THIS MURDER came to us in the winter of 2019, when we were tooling around lake Hamilton in Arkansas. The lake was down and we started pointing out where dead bodies could be stashed (we are so much fun to be around). Anyway,
We started making up stories of people who lived along the lake shore and our southern mountain town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Maggie, Sutton and Mia were born! We also thought about what we like in a good mystery, and a cute village is a definite must. Majestic Springs is sort of a combo between Hot Springs, Arkansas, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Leavenworth , Washington.
Hot Springs, AR
Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs, AR
We had so much fun imagining and writing The Majestic Hotel and Spa, that used to be an asylum. Our main inspirations were The Crescent Hotel and The Trans-Allegheny Asylum.
Leavenworth, Washington
Trans-Allegheny Asylum
For Noah- Jesse Williams
Adrian- maybe Theo James with long hair
Always have had Merritt Weaver in mind for Maggie
Yaya DaCosta all the way for Mia
Sutton is a combo between Julien Sands and Rupert Graves from A ROOM WITH A VIEW, and Dan Levy
For Heidi, I’m envisioning Hunter Schafer with a bit of Jayne Mansfield thrown in.
Alice is a cross between Julia Jones and Marie Avgeropoulos
For James - definitely love Taye Diggs
I like this dude’s looks for William, an actor named Travis Van Winkle
For Abby, i’m thinking Adrianne Palicki
Herschel is most certainly Kellen Lutz
Barbie Ferreira for Virginia
Tamsin - a cross between Eva Green and Krysten Ritter
I see Zosia Mamet for Lena-Elise
Jenny should be played by Katheryn Winnick
Trig - Anthony Starr
