Kill for Love is a searing satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses—and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction—at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody, fatal affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to kill attractive young men.

As Tiffany’s bloodlust deepens and the bodies pile up, she must contend with mounting legal scrutiny, social media-fueled competing murders, and her growing relationship with Weston, who she thinks could be the perfect boyfriend. A female-driven, modern-day American Psycho, Kill for Love exposes modern toxic plasticity with dark comedy and propulsive plot.

Praise for Kill for Love

"Kill for Love scorches and scalds like a late-summer LA wildfire. Alongside her heroine, Tiffany, Picklesimer peels back the city's beautiful skin to reveal the brute forces required to maintain its shiny surfaces, and the result is as nakedly violent as it is dazzlingly compelling." — Zan Romanoff, author of Look

"Kill for Love weaves a darkly comedic tale of privilege and power set against the ever-present dangers Los Angeles faces with increasing intensity each year. Tiffany is captivating and wonderfully terrifying.” — Lisa Glatt, author of The Nakeds

"A tonal blend of Promising Young Woman and American Psycho, Picklesimer's electric narrative masterfully combines propulsive genre pulp with incisive prose that dissects societal-imposed gender norms and subverts all expectations of what a female antihero can be." — Peter Malone Elliott, screenwriter and author of Blue Ridge

"Picklesimer’s debut is a blood- and sun-soaked satire. Subversive and thrilling, its manicured fist goes straight for your jugular." — Meg Hafdahl, Bram Stoker-nominated co-author of The Science of Women in Horror

"Kill For Love is an edgy, thrilling satire. Sorority sister Tiffany is a character for the ages, who torches all other serial killers and leaves her own blazing and magnificent trail. Trust me when I say, this is one to be devoured!" — Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of The Ancestor and The Mentor

“Kill for Love is a propulsive and provocative thriller with a sly sense of humor and a keenly observed portrayal of the violence that lurks beneath the surface of the glamorous sorority scene and the sun-baked excesses and failures of Los Angeles. Picklesimer’s writing is visceral and sensory, bringing out the sharp edges of her polished protagonist, whose cathartic rage is shocking, fun and terrifying in equal measure.” — Launch Pad Writing Competitions

"This disruptive debut heralds Picklesimer as a newcomer to watch." —Publishers Weekly

Praise for Laura Picklesimer 

“In her clear and visceral sentences that evoke a world both like and unlike our own, Picklesimer places you completely in the narrator’s haunting, singular journey.” — Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin and Real Americans

Kill for Love’s Awards 

• Launch Pad Prose Competition: Top Book Prize (2021) 

• Book Pipeline’s Unpublished Contest: Grand Prize for Best Thriller/Mystery (2020)

• Arch Street Press First Pages Contest: Grand Prize (2019)

• Stockholm Writing Festival First Pages: Longlist (2019)

Upcoming Readings & Events

Vroman's Bookstore - Thursday, September 7 - 7pm

Warwick's - Thursday, September 21 - 7:30pm