True Criminals

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Pub Date Jun 06 2023 | Archive Date May 09 2023

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Description

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil meets True Detective (Season 1) in this hilarious Crime Caper about two farce criminals take the fall for a celebrity's death in order to profit off of a Hollywood buyout.

Dax and Daryl, two small-time crooks, concocted an ambitious plan to retire—frame themselves for kidnapping and murdering a rap superstar's trophy wife in an unsolved missing person case! To guarantee their capture, they broke into the crime scene and left behind some incriminating evidence—their blood, saliva and... *wink, wink* more intimate organic material—in the hope that the notoriety it gained would attract Hollywood producers and land themselves a movie deal! Their plan worked—and then it immediately backfired! Their dream becomes a nightmare, and they now have to prove their innocence or face the consequences of the death penalty.

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil meets True Detective (Season 1) in this hilarious Crime Caper about two farce criminals take the fall for a celebrity's death in order to profit off of a Hollywood buyout.

Dax...


A Note From the Publisher

This book contains explicit content: crude humor/language, profanity, drug and alcohol use, kissing, nudity, sex and intimacy, and violence.

This book contains explicit content: crude humor/language, profanity, drug and alcohol use, kissing, nudity, sex and intimacy, and violence.


Advance Praise

"I'm laughing out loud... Just too funny." - Erin Bledsoe (Author of The Forty Elephants)

”It’s pretty funny…” - Louise Gray (ARC Reader from Australia)

“This was one of the funniest books I have ever read… It is hard to give humorous books 5 stars but this one definitely deserves all five if not more…” - Janalyn Prude (ARC Reader from USA)

"I'm laughing out loud... Just too funny." - Erin Bledsoe (Author of The Forty Elephants)

”It’s pretty funny…” - Louise Gray (ARC Reader from Australia)

“This was one of the funniest books I have ever...



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Featured Reviews

If you ever wondered what happened to those two zero-chance-of-success, horny, annoying guys you went to junior high and high school with who always sat at the back of the class, destined to be eternal losers, born and raised screw-balls...here you go.

Because this is classified into General Fiction (Adult), Humor and Satire, Mystery and Thrillers, naturally it doesn't fall into any one particular genre, but rolls a raunchy spin in the multiverse destined as un-classifiable. This makes a detailed review a bit more difficult without giving spoilers. The writer's voices have a sort of Chuck Palahniuk-esque flair. Punchy and clever. Here's what I mean:

"Glenn paused for several seconds...and then continued. "Honestly, I'm impressed. Both of you have somehow managed to get yourselves arrested and have your mugshots taken every single year since you graduated high school. Wait," he flipped a page in the envelope. "Let me correct myself–since you two dropped out of high school. That has to be some sort of world record, right?"

Similar to the writing style of Paul Neilan’s, APATHY, which I feel the Kirkus review of that one seemed less than desirable, possibly based on being showcased as General Fiction as well. I'm curious to see how the rest of the world tastes this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Nailed the Humor and Satire genre!

I wasn’t able to read it straight through cover to cover in one sitting. Pick it up, put it down, pick it back up, but STILL you won't miss a beat. You think about the characters when you’re not reading it because it streams and carries itself pretty damn well. I think that’s a massive indication of an truly entertaining read. This certainly won’t be every folks cup of tea, pop-tarts will baulk, but my time reading it was filled with smirks, laughs and eye-rolls at the characters lack of direction or intelligence.

This would be fun to see converted into a screenplay, if it isn’t already.

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