Sex & The Serial Killer is a romance novel by author Jennifer Skully. It's about a woman named Roberta whose husband Warren finds an ex-girlfriend named Cookie with his wife Roberta's help who'd been missing for years. Cookie is found living in a small town in California called Cottonmouth. With Roberta's urging, Warren goes to "visit" Cookie in Cottonmouth and later informs Roberta that he intends to stay with his long-lost love. Feeling dejected, Roberta decides to follow Warren to Cottonmouth where she changes not only her appearance but also changes her name to Bobbie in an attempt to show her hubby what he's been missing. However, instead of trying to win said hubby over, "Bobbie" finds herself attracted to her "bad boy" next door neighbor a rather reclusive "artist" named Nick whom locals believe is an actual serial killer. As you can probably already tell, Sex & The Serial Killer is not your typical "romantic" fare. Yes, it contains the requisite number of "love" scenes one would come to expect in your typical romance novel (though, seeing as how it was published back in 2005, said "love" scenes may seem rather tame compared to the 50 Shades Of Grey-style "love" scenes of today!). But what I really found interesting about this book--besides, of course, the "love" scenes!--was that the plot actually kind of mirrored my own life. You see, I myself lived in a small town--which, of course, shall remain nameless--where the townsfolk spread all types of wild-ass rumors about me (and I believe I'll just keep those "rumors" to myself, all right?). Of course, unlike the "hunky" Nick, I didn't have a hot woman like Roberta/"Bobbie" to support me (in more ways than one!). I'm not sure if author Jennifer Skully has had any real-life "experience" in small towns and their various hypocrisies and/or bigotries and is therefore speaking from "personal" experience. In any case, Sex & The Serial Killer will no doubt appeal to the (mostly female) fans of the romance genre and could also very well appeal to those who would normally not read a romance novel--and, yes, fellas, I'm looking at you!--and are looking for something a bit different to read and therefore enjoy. (And, of course, you'll have to read the book to see whether or not Nick turns out to be an actual serial killer!)
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