"What happens when you let AI play Cupid…and it gets things horribly, murderously wrong."
This deliciously dark, high-concept thriller drops us into the glossy, unsettling world of Love Synced – a reality TV phenomenon where hopeful romantics surrender their hearts to an algorithm promising the perfect match. No glass slippers required, just a wrist-strapped AI assistant - CILLA, the so-called “AI fairy godmother” searching for your soulmate with chilling certainty.
Hazel, a waitress from south of the river, never expected to find herself cast opposite Marc Van Batten, an obscenely wealthy heir with an insufferable, image-obsessed family. Their whirlwind romance is engineered for maximum spectacle: meet, marry, and fall in love in just two weeks, all under the relentless gaze of millions of viewers. It’s forced proximity romance turned up to eleven, complete with a dream wedding setting on a remote Norwegian archipelago. But this is no fairy tale. Anonymous notes begin to arrive, each more menacing than the last. Warnings. Secrets. All set on sabotaging the wedding.
Hazel and Marc’s relationship is the beating heart of the story. Their chemistry crackles as the days go by but constant obstacles (and the mysterious character in red) seem to prevent them from reaching the 99% required for the wedding to go ahead. Are they truly a perfect match, or just perfectly positioned for disaster?
The novel brilliantly pivots from satirical reality TV romp to claustrophobic locked-room mystery, blending sharp social commentary with genuine tension. After all, if we trust algorithms with everything else…why not love? When a storm strands the wedding party in a tiny Arctic airport, the glossy façade cracks. A dead body in a locked toilet. Another abandoned among the luggage.
Darkly funny, sharply observed and irresistibly tense, I Think We Should Kill Other People is a wickedly entertaining blend of romance, satire and serial killer thriller. Fans of high-stakes reality TV drama and locked-room mysteries will devour it. Just don’t trust the algorithm.
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The new laugh-out-loud serial killer thriller from L.M. Chilton, author of Don't Swipe Right and Everyone in the Group Chat Dies.
Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in which AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms.
But when it came time to say I Do on camera, Hazel couldn't go through with it, leaving her perfect match at the altar, his family furious and the whole TV production in jeopardy.
Now all she wants to do is fly home. Instead, she's trapped in an isolated airport that's been ground to a halt by a snow storm... with her ex and his obnoxiously rich family. But when they start turning up dead, a jilted lover is the least of Hazel's worries - there's a serial killer to catch first.
The AI algorithm failed to find Hazel her soulmate... But could it help find the murderer instead?
I Think We Should Kill Other People features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Artificial intelligence, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Computing and Information Technology, Computer science, Artificial intelligence
I Think We Should Kill Other People is available in Paperback
I Think We Should Kill Other People was written by L.M. Chilton and published by Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
I Think We Should Kill Other People has 291 pages
£8.99
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