COOKIES: A Dark Comic Thriller With an Ending You Won't See Coming

by Matthew Hattersley

Genres: Black Humor

Synopsis

Will Miles find love again after the worst six months of his life? The fortune cookies say yes. But they also say commit arson and murder, so maybe it’s time to stop believing in them? If only he could...

By day Miles is a journalist, struggling to cope after the death of his girlfriend. By night he’s an insomniac who occupies himself with a side-job; writing the insides of fortune cookies. When a local man, inspired by one of these missive, wins the lottery, Miles wonders if he may have fortune-telling powers. In an attempt to salvage something from the ruins of his life he decides to let fortune cookies guide his decisions. That’s when Miles’s luck starts to change.

With a new job and a hot, celebrity girlfriend, Miles is happy again. That is until the fortune cookies take on a sinister tone. With cracks showing in his mental health it soon becomes clear that not everything is as rosy it seems...

Cookies is The Dice Man for the Facebook generation. A razor sharp and darkly funny work of fiction that keeps you hooked right until the end.

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Release date: October 11, 2019

Publisher: Boom Boom Press

Print pages: 313