Love in the Time of Serial Killers

True-crime scholar Phoebe Walsh returns to Florida to clear out her late father’s house while trying to finish her dissertation. Her new neighbor Sam is friendly, helpful, and therefore immediately suspicious to someone trained to notice every warning sign. Alicia Thompson’s Love in the Time of Serial Killers blends romantic comedy with grief, family repair, and one woman’s habit of treating emotional vulnerability like evidence at a crime scene. Falling in love may be the mystery Phoebe least wants to solve.