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Join us on November 4, 2025 at 7:00 pm at Cancun Mexican Grill for a lively discussion of this month’s book “My Murder” by Katie Williams. Books can be checked out at the library Circulation Desk, or put on hold here.
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Book Summary
What if the murder you had to solve was your own?
Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She’s also the victim of a local serial killer. Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, she is grateful for this second chance. But as the new Lou re-adapts to her old routines, and as she bonds with other female victims, she realizes that disturbing questions remain about what exactly preceded her death and how much she can really trust those around her.
Now it’s not enough to care for her child, love her husband, and work the job she’s always enjoyed–she must also figure out the circumstances of her death. Darkly comic, tautly paced, and full of surprises, My Murder is a devour-in-one-sitting, clever twist on the classic thriller.
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Discussion Questions
1. My Murder provides an exciting twist on the classic thriller as its main character, Louise, a happily married mother of one, must attempt to solve her own murder. In what other ways does Lou subvert the idea of the standard protagonist in fiction?
2. Lou is part of a support group of others who were killed and brought back under similar circumstances. How do survivors understand themselves now that they’ve been brought back?
3. While the book is a mystery with a speculative twist, it also has a compelling family drama at its core. What do you think the author is trying to say about the complexities of motherhood through the relationships between Lou and Silas and Nova?
4. Lou has a job at The Room, a virtual reality space for touch therapy, where she transforms into whatever person her clients want to hold. What kind of intimacy is possible between strangers> What sort of comfort does Lou give her clients, and what does she gain from the job through the skins she wears?
5. My Murder takes place in a not-so-distant future where a virtual reality game like Early Evening is as popular as social media is today. The game allows the user to play both as Angela, a murdered woman, and as Edward Early, the murderer. What is the book saying about the relationship between entertainment, voyeurism and complicity as it relates to violence against women?
6. In the world of the book, convicted killers are “benighted”, or put in a coma for the time of their sentence, while videos designed to increase empathy play in their dreams. What might be the risks and benefits of such a technology? What about the other technologies in the novel, such as cloning or virtual reality?
7. Early in the novel, Lou observes that women in the world must always take precautions: “We snuck glances at the man walking a little dog (a prop?), at the man who interrupted us in the meeting (aggressive?), at the man who shared our bed (how well can you really know someone?). How does this idea later inform the “Evening is Ours” uprising in Early Evening?
8. In the stunning conclusion of My Murder, Lou does, in fact, get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her death and reanimation. Were you surprised by the answers that she finds, or did they match your suspicions? Of all the twists the book takes, which was the most interesting?
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