Don't Swipe Right: A Novel

by L.M. Chilton Narrated by Georgia Maguire

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Cleverly written with a dark humor that adds to the sheer propulsiveness of the plot, Swiped takes online dating in a whole new direction.

A young woman must unmask a serial killer and prove her innocence, all before her best friend's wedding in this hilarious “sultry summer thriller” (The New York Times).

Gwen Turner has made a bloody mess of her life. She recently broke up with the best man she's ever known for reasons she can't even admit to herself and quit a lucrative job to open her own coffee shop. To top it all off, her best friend is getting married and leaving her behind in singlehood.

Along with too much cheap wine and bad reality TV, Gwen turns to a dating app to help fill the void in her life. Swiping through the few eligible bachelors left in town, she spends her evenings out on one disastrous date after another. But when a string of murders suddenly occurs in her small coastal English city, she's shocked by the connection between each of the victims-they've all been on a date with her.

Before she knows what's happening, Gwen finds herself the main suspect in a serial killer's murderous spree, and the only way she can clear her name is to track down her former dates (even those that have ghosted her) and unmask a killer before it's too late.

Editorial Reviews

Margarita Montimore

"Witty and loads of fun, Swiped is full of plot twists and wicked insights on dating in the age of technology."

CrimeReads

"Another send-off of modern dating, this time with an extra-fun twist!"

Crime Reads

"Another send-off of modern dating, this time with an extra-fun twist!"

Amy Tintera

A funny, charming page-turner, but also a sharp observation of online dating culture. Fast-paced, twisty and great fun! “

Rupert Holmes

SWIPED is as if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. A crafty fusion of savvy humor and twisty suspense makes for a murderously clever debut!

Jennifer Close

I read Swiped in one single sitting, laughing, playing detective, and on the edge of my seat until I got to the end. Chilton’s debut about online dating and serial killers manages to be darkly funny, hilariously twisty, and completely charming. This book is just so much fun!

New York Times Book Review

"For a novel with such a high body count, L.M. Chilton’s Swiped is remarkably lighthearted...the book riffs amusingly not just on life as a singleton but also on cryptocurrency, algorithms, the pluses and minuses of female friendship and pre-wedding angst."

Kirkus Reviews

2024-03-23
Internet dating comes under the microscope in Chilton’s darkly funny thriller.

After going on a few dates with various losers she’s swiped right on, English coffee-truck owner Gwendolyn Turner is pretty fed up with the dating scene. It doesn’t help that her best friend is due to get married to her milksop of a fiance on Valentine’s Day. Gritting her teeth through Sarah’s hellish hen party, Gwen takes a break to check the Connector app and gets a weird message from a possible match: He says he’s going to have to reschedule their date and includes a link to a news story about the death of a local man—a man Gwen had gone on a terrible date with a week earlier. When the police arrive to question her, it turns out that the guy she dated next is dead, too. Reeling from this strange news, she makes a list of the six men she’s gone out with—from the racist mini-golfer to the full-of-himself mama’s boy. As the body count mounts, Gwen becomes a person of interest in the investigation, of course, but the bigger question is, who could have known to whom she was matched? Who has hacked the app and is pulling the strings? And why her? She’ll have to do her own detective work, with the help of a shady Cuppacino employee and an infamous hacker with a French bulldog. There is definitely something ridiculous about this whole affair; the saving grace is that both Gwen and the author seem to recognize this, and despite the serial killer plot, nothing is taken too seriously. Of course, this could also be off-putting to some readers; no matter how terrible these men were to Gwen, they (probably) don’t deserve to be murdered. Still, Chilton shines a blackly humorous light on male misbehavior and love in the age of the internet—plus the timeless and ridiculous societal pressure of finding “the one.”

Bound to become a classic of the singles scene.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159391469
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	05/21/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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