Review: If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle

If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle

Blurb from Goodreads:

he thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie?

When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author’s next novel, she has romance in mind — namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted by a mysterious busker, and she finds herself swept into a fairytale first date with a dashing stranger who seems destined to take her breath away.

Except for one little that dashing stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist — but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.

Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So, when her escape from a potential murderer takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman — an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels — she decides a little light kidnapping is a small price to pay for survival.

Together, Roxie and Grant team up to navigate a madcap story where the lines between fiction and reality blur and find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End — or maybe even Happily Ever After.

 

This was fun!  I probably would have enjoyed this a lot more had I not read another novel with similar premise that made a little more sense.  Still, this was worth reading and I think a lot of people will love it.  Great chemistry and I was not expecting some of the twists and turns.  Give this a try!

If Books Could Kill comes out next week on July 21, 2026 and you can purchase HERE.  

I make the rookie mistake of trying to ease into consciousness by scrolling through my phone. (This is a mistake I make every morning.) I don't know what I hope to find there-maybe an email informing me that my office building has burned down, or a news article announcing that whipped cream straight from the can is actually good for you. Instead it's all PEOPLE IN POWER ARE DOING BAD THINGS and THERE ARE MURDERERS IN YOUR CITY and YOU STILL HAVE TO GO TO WORK TODAY, ROXIE.