Killer Joe. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Killer Joe
Tracy Letts, 1999
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William Friedkin, 2011

In West Dallas, Texas, 22-year-old drug dealer Chris Smith comes to the house of his father Ansel and step-mother Sharla, after his mother, Adele, threw him out of her house. Assuming Dottie would share the money with Chris and their father, Chris manages to rope the dim-witted Ansel into hiring Joe Cooper, a police detective who has a side career as a contract killer, to kill Ansel’s ex-wife to get the money.


Out of Blue. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1997 book, Night Train
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Night Train
Martin Amis, 1997
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Carol Morley, 2018

Detective Mike Hoolihan is assigned to investigate the shooting of Jennifer Rockwell, a renowned astrophysicist and expert on black holes, and finds herself grappling with unexpected emotions and reactions to the case.