A huge, resounding thank you to CarKann for the amazing cover!
Author's Note
This project started five years ago as an unformed, and completely undeveloped, National Novel Writing Month ambition.
I spent that November jotting down random scenes in my head, becoming acquainted with the characters and their unique quirks: one, a sixteen-year-old kid with obsessive-compulsive disorder; and the other his next-door neighbor, a creepy psychopath tangled in a small town murder mystery.
This definitely hasn't been my typical run-of-the-mill project. It started off with a character named Cooper Daniels, and bloomed into a fully-fledged murder mystery seemingly overnight. The dynamic of the characters came first. The plot, last.
A long hiatus (otherwise known as college) buried this project for four years. It wasn't until my senior year of college that I picked this back up, brushed off the dust, and began breathing life back into it. And now, some months and a lot of coffee later, The Psychopath Next Door is complete. And she just won a 2020 Watty Award for the Mystery/Thriller category!
Thank you to anyone and everyone who stuck with Cooper and Calla through their first fumbling steps. As I reflect on the journey that began five years ago, I have all of you to thank! You are, without a doubt, what motivates me.
And for those of you who are reading for the first time: enjoy!
Copyright © 2019 by Carson Faircloth
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The Psychopath Next Door
Mystery / Thriller☆☆ Watty Award Winner 2020 ☆☆ Cooper Daniels lives next door to a psychopath. He just can't prove it...yet. When the most popular girl in high school is murdered at a Halloween party, Cooper's suspicions become a reality. He knows exactly who did it...
