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January 7, 2013
In Cooper’s chilling debut, English grad student Michaela “Mickey” Brandis, who’s lived for most of her 28 years in her parents’ garage in Akron, Ohio, receives a message that leads her to a condemned house, where she finds a partially flayed male corpse spread-eagled on a bed. Mickey has killed once, albeit in self-defense when she was 10, but she did mutilate the body afterward, so she avoids calling the police for fear of becoming a suspect. At first, Mickey’s suspicions fall on a friend of her older brother, Aidan Devorecek, who lives across the street from the house, but both she and the reader come to realize that the truth is much more disturbing. Cooper’s prose is full of dark beauty, whether in describing human viscera or the weather. Those willing to stare into the recesses of the human psyche will be most rewarded. Agent: Amy Rennert, the Amy Rennert Agency.
February 15, 2013
I rarely eat dead animals, and I haven't killed a man since I was ten, confesses University of Akron doctoral candidate Michaela Mickey Brandis. She's not supernatural; she's just antisocial. Really, really antisocial. Knowing she doesn't have the capacity to feel or respond like other people, Mickey lives in a self-imposed exile, leaving her parents' garage apartment only to teach and work on her thesis. Then a cryptic message in her campus mailbox directs her to an abandoned building where she finds a mutilated corpse. Later, she's asked by one of her brother's artist friends to solve his mother's 20-year-old murder. Is Mickey looking for one killer or two? For a person who vomits after physical contact with others, Mickey is severely stressed by the interactions required in investigative work. Literature professor Cooper's debut novel is a fast-paced psychological thriller with an unforgettable heroine. This damaged yet fiercely independent protagonist will appeal to fans of Stieg Larsson and Gillian Flynn.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)