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SHE'S A DOLL
by Barbara Truelove

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Tagline: For fans of Rachel Harrison and Grady Hendrix, She’s A Doll is a darkly funny ride through the psyche of a haunted doll, hellbent on revenge, by the LA Times-bestselling author of Of Monsters and Mainframes Barbara Truelove.

About SHE’S A DOLL: Lucy isn’t a normal girl. Ghost. Victim. Killer. She’s a doll on a mission—to find the man who killed her and return the favor.

Lucy McQuinn has been murdered, but she’s not about to go quietly.

If she doesn’t get to keep breathing, then neither does Kyle, her killer. Possessing the body of an antique doll, she sets out on a quest for revenge. But it’s hard when you’re eighteen inches tall and made of porcelain.

For help, she turns to Nicola, a human and fellow outsider with her own reasons to hate Kyle. But in their small idyllic town, no one wants to hear the truth, especially not about such a promising young man. If they can’t expose his crimes, Lucy will have to roll up her lacy little sleeves and teach him a lesson the old-fashioned way—as slowly and painfully as possible.

From LA Times bestselling author Barbara Truelove, SHE’S A DOLL is a ghoulish and gleeful tribute to the unstoppable power of female rage and a love letter to the friends who have our back—in this life and the next.

About the author: Barbara Truelove is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed paranormal sci-fi mash-up Of Monsters and Mainframes. Her first interactive novel Blood Moon was released with Hosted Games in April 2023, and her indie debut Crying Wolf published in 2021. Barbara graduated from Griffith University with a Batchelor of Art (Screen Media Production) in 2015. She worked in television for several years before setting off to seek adventure elsewhere. Since then, she has lived, worked, and written in Australia, South Korea, and Aotearoa New Zealand. She started writing when she was nine years old and believes it's probably too late to break the habit now. https://barbaratruelove.com/

Things to know: Two female characters begin dating at the very end. This book depicts two scenes of on-page murder (by strangulation and by covering in cement). Lots of swearing!