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Roxie Kills
A BRAND-NEW NOVELLA IN THE KILLING KIND UNIVERSE!
“ROXIE KILLS is a fun, vicious ride that made me want more! Roxie is back, and I couldn’t be happier!”
—Kristopher Rufty, author of OLD SCRATCH and ALL WILL DIE
When the devil needs a favor from a mortal, there’s just one person he can turn to, and that person is Roxie Wallace, the most notorious serial killer to ever walk the planet. Roxie isn’t in the habit of doing anyone favors, but she’s been out of the mass bloodshed game for a long time and is eager to leap back into action. Bringing her long-dead boyfriend back from Hell is just the bloody icing on the cake.
"Bryan Smith is one of the most reliable and consistently entertaining writers working in the horror and suspense genres."--Ray Garton, author of Live Girls
"I look forward to spending a weekend with a new Bryan Smith book the way I used to look forward to spending a weekend with a new Richard Laymon novel. In my view, there isn't higher praise than that."--Brian Keene, author of The Rising
“ROXIE KILLS is a fun, vicious ride that made me want more! Roxie is back, and I couldn’t be happier!”
—Kristopher Rufty, author of OLD SCRATCH and ALL WILL DIE
When the devil needs a favor from a mortal, there’s just one person he can turn to, and that person is Roxie Wallace, the most notorious serial killer to ever walk the planet. Roxie isn’t in the habit of doing anyone favors, but she’s been out of the mass bloodshed game for a long time and is eager to leap back into action. Bringing her long-dead boyfriend back from Hell is just the bloody icing on the cake.
"Bryan Smith is one of the most reliable and consistently entertaining writers working in the horror and suspense genres."--Ray Garton, author of Live Girls
"I look forward to spending a weekend with a new Bryan Smith book the way I used to look forward to spending a weekend with a new Richard Laymon novel. In my view, there isn't higher praise than that."--Brian Keene, author of The Rising
- GenresHorror
124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 2024
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About the author
Bryan Smith
104 books760 followersBryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than forty horror and crime books, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, as well as The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, "The best zombie novel I've ever read."
68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.
Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics. He has worked with renowned horror publishers in both the mass market and small press spheres, including Leisure Books, Samhain Publishing, Grindhouse Press, Death’s Head Press, and more. His works are available wherever books are sold, with select titles also available in German and Italian.
68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.
Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics. He has worked with renowned horror publishers in both the mass market and small press spheres, including Leisure Books, Samhain Publishing, Grindhouse Press, Death’s Head Press, and more. His works are available wherever books are sold, with select titles also available in German and Italian.
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June 23, 2024
Really enjoyed this one. Good pace. Nice to return to some of my favourite characters.
April 10, 2024
I'm losing it. I didn't even realize there was a fourth book in the "Roxie Series" (Is there a better name?). When I happened upon it, I grabbed it immediately and dug in.
When we last left Roxie, she was taking a bit of a break. Forced to stay out of the spotlight, something she is not comfortable with, we find her living a charmed life. Everything is provided for her, up to and including occasional playmates to keep her predatory/sexual skills sharp. But there is one thing missing. She's had sex with no shortage of men and women, but only ever loved one: Rob. The man she killed in a rage a few years back and has constantly regretted. The only murder she regrets, no doubt.
Her overlords, an organization with world-wide spread and seemingly unlimited power and money have decided it's time for her to get back "out there". Specifically to find an artifact and kill specific targets that they feel are loose ends. Since she was getting everything she wanted in her hide-out, what could they possibly use to convince her to follow their instructions? How about Rob - alive again. Is their power really so complete that they can even control life and death?
For fans of the "Killing Kind" and "Murder Squad" books, this is an easy recommendation. Roxie is still the spunky, sexy, neurotic, manic-pixie-death-girl and continues to chew through scenery like a sexy soft-core Freddy Krueger (of the later films), spewing out hilarious one liners and pulling out more and more elaborate plans that shouldn't work but always seem to. More time with her character is always exciting.
Here comes the butt (pun intended, naturally). She's the keystone of the book, but a large chunk of it goes to Rob. He's in hell. Because of course he is. The transition of him to possibly return to Earth to live again, assuming Roxie succeeds, is dwelt upon, along with some examples of the tortures that he had been forced to endure. But, as enraptured as Roxie is with him, he's no Roxie. The book slows down, at least to this reader, during his chapters, and for a book as short as this, that's unfortunate.
In the end - it's the weakest of the four books in this series. It never feels like Roxie is in danger, or over her head, something the other books were better at doing - which helped make it harder to put those books down. And while the Hell scenes were graphic, it's clear that no matter what occurs, Rob is never in any real danger (what's gonna happen - he dies again and goes to super-hell?), so that doesn't have as much oomph as they should either.
BUTT (again) It's also a perfectly good book, and gives us more time with a character that is so fun to share the page with. New readers, start with The Killing Kind and work your way up. If you've earned your stripes and read both Killing Kinds and Murder Squad, there's no reason to stop there. It might not be quite as impressive as those prior books, but it's still damn good and a very quick read. What more do you want for the fourth book in a series?
When we last left Roxie, she was taking a bit of a break. Forced to stay out of the spotlight, something she is not comfortable with, we find her living a charmed life. Everything is provided for her, up to and including occasional playmates to keep her predatory/sexual skills sharp. But there is one thing missing. She's had sex with no shortage of men and women, but only ever loved one: Rob. The man she killed in a rage a few years back and has constantly regretted. The only murder she regrets, no doubt.
Her overlords, an organization with world-wide spread and seemingly unlimited power and money have decided it's time for her to get back "out there". Specifically to find an artifact and kill specific targets that they feel are loose ends. Since she was getting everything she wanted in her hide-out, what could they possibly use to convince her to follow their instructions? How about Rob - alive again. Is their power really so complete that they can even control life and death?
For fans of the "Killing Kind" and "Murder Squad" books, this is an easy recommendation. Roxie is still the spunky, sexy, neurotic, manic-pixie-death-girl and continues to chew through scenery like a sexy soft-core Freddy Krueger (of the later films), spewing out hilarious one liners and pulling out more and more elaborate plans that shouldn't work but always seem to. More time with her character is always exciting.
Here comes the butt (pun intended, naturally). She's the keystone of the book, but a large chunk of it goes to Rob. He's in hell. Because of course he is. The transition of him to possibly return to Earth to live again, assuming Roxie succeeds, is dwelt upon, along with some examples of the tortures that he had been forced to endure. But, as enraptured as Roxie is with him, he's no Roxie. The book slows down, at least to this reader, during his chapters, and for a book as short as this, that's unfortunate.
In the end - it's the weakest of the four books in this series. It never feels like Roxie is in danger, or over her head, something the other books were better at doing - which helped make it harder to put those books down. And while the Hell scenes were graphic, it's clear that no matter what occurs, Rob is never in any real danger (what's gonna happen - he dies again and goes to super-hell?), so that doesn't have as much oomph as they should either.
BUTT (again) It's also a perfectly good book, and gives us more time with a character that is so fun to share the page with. New readers, start with The Killing Kind and work your way up. If you've earned your stripes and read both Killing Kinds and Murder Squad, there's no reason to stop there. It might not be quite as impressive as those prior books, but it's still damn good and a very quick read. What more do you want for the fourth book in a series?
March 29, 2024
Couldn't put it down.
She laughed with genuine delight. “You get me. You so get me. Fuck it. Why wait for the fun part?” She threw herself upon him and he felt the fire burning so fiercely within her as she guided him to the ground. The pent-up need she’d stored through all the long, regretful years of missing him desperately. They shed their clothes and made passionate love beneath the dark desert sky.
She laughed with genuine delight. “You get me. You so get me. Fuck it. Why wait for the fun part?” She threw herself upon him and he felt the fire burning so fiercely within her as she guided him to the ground. The pent-up need she’d stored through all the long, regretful years of missing him desperately. They shed their clothes and made passionate love beneath the dark desert sky.
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