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Human Doll by Mark McLaughlin

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4.0

I found this author in the BOH FB author list and if you've been keeping up with my reviews you know that I'm trying to read new-to-me authors in 2022. I went into this book blind based off cover and title. I was fully expecting something brutal. Like maybe somebody using their victims' corpses to make dolls or something. I did not get that, but I'm pleased with what I did get.
Let me begin by saying that I'm getting old, and this book took me back to my younger years of hitting the clubs. Every Friday and Saturday night I always had a front row seat for the drag shows at one of my local clubs, that is now gone (and I miss it). The cast in this book, the many drag queens (from the competition show) were fun, quirky, and very likeable. There was also another television show about a plastic surgeon and his boyfriend, referred to as a doll due to all of his enhancements.
People from the TV shows are turning up dead....

The ending was not what I expected, and I don't think I could have ever guessed it in a million years/. I wish the kills had been more detailed, but I'm weird like that. I would totally recommend this book to anyone (especially if this review sounds like something they'd like)>
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