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The Anatomy of Desire: A Novel
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A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller of 2021

Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice Performance

For fans of riveting true crime docuseries a la Serial and Making a Murderer, The Anatomy of Desire is a modern tale of crime and punishment exploring unbridled ambition, blinding passion, and the dark side of desire

Ambition. Passion. Betrayal. Murder?

Claire Griffith has it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of realizing her biggest dreams.

One summer day, Cleo and a woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a serene mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water and Cleo is missing. Authorities suspect foul play, and news of Cleo's involvement goes viral. Who was Beck? An infatuated follower? Were she and Cleo friends or lovers? Was Beck's death an accident . . . or murder?

Told in the form of an immersive investigative docuseries, L. R. Dorn's brilliant reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's classic crime drama, An American Tragedy, captures the urgency and poignance of the original and rekindles it as a very contemporary and utterly mesmerizing page-turner that will keep you guessing... Did she or didn't she?

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A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller of 2021

Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice Performance

For fans of riveting true crime docuseries a la Serial and Making a Murderer, The Anatomy of Desire is a modern tale of crime and punishment exploring unbridled ambition, blinding passion, and the dark side of desire

Ambition. Passion. Betrayal. Murder?

Claire Griffith has it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of realizing her biggest dreams.

One summer day, Cleo and a woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a serene mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water and Cleo is missing. Authorities suspect foul play, and news of Cleo's involvement goes viral. Who was Beck? An infatuated follower? Were she and Cleo friends or lovers? Was Beck's death an accident . . . or murder?

Told in the form of an immersive investigative docuseries, L. R. Dorn's brilliant reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's classic crime drama, An American Tragedy, captures the urgency and poignance of the original and rekindles it as a very contemporary and utterly mesmerizing page-turner that will keep you guessing... Did she or didn't she?

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      • source: Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box
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        "A truly innovative, fantastic book. Emphatically recommended. Reads like your favorite podcast, the hit crime doc you'll want to binge. A brilliant brewing of progressive internet influencers, with smaller town police doing their best to keep up. Structurally fresh, these talking heads will enchant you." — Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box

        "Centered on the world of social media influencers, the pseudonymous Dorn's remarkable debut takes the form of a true crime docuseries... The riveting trial, during which Cleo constantly changes her story, comes down to circumstantial evidence... With no witnesses to the murder, readers will breathlessly await the verdict." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

        "[A] modern reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel, An American Tragedy... takes readers through the intimate details of a mysterious drowning and the sensational trial... This riveting mock podcast docudrama ratchets up the suspense as readers glimpse every angle of the story from a 360–degree view." — Library Journal (starred review)

        "In podcast style, the mystery gives us a range of voices and perspectives, from the boathouse attendants on, held together by the narrator. The advantage of this format is its great immediacy." — Booklist

        "Ingenious and brilliantly executed... Contemporary in setting and cast, but also in narrative style: the desperate social climber is a young woman "influencer," and the form is as a series of true-crime podcasts—it reads like the transcripts of interviews—and it works stunningly well, clear, fast-moving and deeply engrossing." — Sullivan Co. Democrat

        "L.R. Dorn's spicy update of Theodore Dreiser's 1925 classic, An American Tragedy... is written in the form of a docuseries like "Serial," and like that cool potboiler, "The Anatomy of Desire" cruises along with nary a bump in the road." — The Washington Post

        "A fascinating courtroom drama.... This deliciously contemporary story... reveals a compelling, poignant portrait of sexual desire in our social media age." — Daily Mail (UK)

        "The genius of L. R. Dorn's work here is in getting the reader to think about who societies punish and why and how our cultural sensibilities change around the concept of shame... A gripping, compelling read that does justice to its source material." — CriminalElement.com

        "The Anatomy of Desire... is at once a clever reworking of a classic American novel and a caustic commentary on contemporary American mores... [It is] compulsive reading." — Anniston Star

        "As the trial progresses, readers may find their preconceptions challenged and their feelings flip-flopping regarding Ceo's guilt and moral character. And when the ending comes, it's a surprisingly poignant one." — ShelfAwareness.com

        "A stunning debut novel that reimagines An American Tragedy as a marathon-worthy true crime series... An innovative and riveting read that ratchets up the suspense with every page." — BookRiot.com

        "It's written as a true-crime documentary and reads like nothing else I've read recently. It's told from the point of view of all the people involved in the case, step by step through the trial and aftermath. You won't want to put it down." — RedCarpetCrash.com

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        Formatted as a true-crime docuseries, this reimagining of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy features Cleo Ray, an up-from-nothing Hollywood fitness coach and social media influencer who paddles off on a canoeing trip with a young woman later found dead. Was it an accident or murder, and where's Cleo? From film director/writer/producer Matt Dorff and Emmy Award winner Suzanne Dunne, writing pseudonymously; with a 150,000-copy first printing.

        Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Centered on the world of social media influencers, the pseudonymous Dorn’s remarkable debut takes the form of a true crime docuseries. Cleo Ray, who’s bisexual and has risen from a humble background to become a successful fitness coach and social media influencer, and her lesbian girlfriend, Beck Alden, row their rented canoe to a secluded cove on Serene Lake near Bishop, Calif. The canoe is later found overturned, with Beck’s bruised body floating nearby. Cleo flees to the town of Mammoth Lakes to rendezvous with her YouTube star boyfriend for a camping trip, never mentioning Beck or the canoe incident. Before long, the sheriff investigating the drowning finds and arrests Cleo. Cleo’s uncle, the owner of a talent management agency, hires a high-powered L.A. defense attorney to represent her. The riveting trial, during which Cleo constantly changes her story, comes down to circumstantial evidence. The prosecutor even brings the canoe into the courtroom to reenact the crime. With no witnesses to the murder, readers will breathlessly await the verdict. Dorn, the pen name of husband-and-wife team Matt Dorff and Suzanne Dunn, is definitely a writer to watch.

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        Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, based on a celebrated 1906 murder case and trial, has given rise to many adaptations, with the latest being this contemporary mystery in which, once again, two people rent a canoe, one is bludgeoned to death, and the other returns to shore. This time, two women rent the canoe--one, Cleo Ray, is a fitness coach, social influencer, and rising media star; the other's relationship to Cleo is unknown. Dorn, a pseudonym for Matt Dorff, a TV writer, producer, and director, and Suzanne Dunn, a screenplay writer, follow the story from canoe rental through trial in a seven-part docuseries format. In podcast style, the mystery gives us a range of voices and perspectives, from the boathouse attendants on, held together by the narrator. The advantage of this format is its great immediacy. However, since the book is written as a script, it lacks the depth of a novel and can't provide the ambient sounds of a podcast or the visuals of a docuseries. Still, this will be intriguing for podcast fans.

        COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice Performance

For fans of riveting true crime docuseries a la Serial and Making a Murderer, The Anatomy of Desire is a modern tale of crime and punishment exploring unbridled ambition, blinding passion, and the dark side of desire

Ambition. Passion. Betrayal. Murder?

Claire Griffith has it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous boyfriend, glamorous friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles flat broke, she has risen to become a popular fitness coach and social media influencer. Having rebranded herself as Cleo Ray, she stands at the threshold of realizing her biggest dreams.

One summer day, Cleo and a woman named Beck Alden set off in a canoe on a serene mountain lake. An hour later, Beck is found dead in the water...

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