Death of a Bookseller

From the moment I started reading Death of a Bookseller, I was absolutely lost to the story – sucked down into it so completely I couldn’t think about anything else. Alice Slater has written a novel that sinks in its teeth and refuses to let go; I buzzed for days after finishing it. Roach has worked......more

Meet Roach (real name Brogan), she works in Spines, a bookshop in Walthamstow. She’s a Goth, a loner, dark if not morbid and obsessed with true crime. Oh, let’s not forget the pet snail, yes, that’s right a pet snail! Roach is quite happy (as much as she can be that is) working in the bookshop until......more

4.5 stars So freaking good, with some of the best character writing I’ve read in years. Messy heroines, dark humor, and an utterly engrossing examination of how feelings of kinship can lead to obsession, and so easily cross the line. As a former bookseller of many years, the bookstore setting is so f......more

A dark, chilling novel on obsession and the ethical ambiguity of true crime fascination. Told in an intimate and haunting set of perspectives, Death of a Bookseller hears from both the exploiter and the exploited, the super-fan and the defender of victims. The discussion around the ethical issues su......more

Thank you to the author Alice Slater, publishers Scarlet and W. W. Norton, and Edelweiss, for an advance digital copy of DEATH OF A BOOK SELLER. This book held me like fists around my lungs and didn't let go until the very end, which I did not see coming, by the way. Bodie Roach is a bookseller (some......more