Killer body or body killer? When fat shaming backfires. Most people are dying to lose a few pounds. Not so in Slashing Mona Lisa, where it's the weight-loss advocates who are losing their lives. Whenever Terry Mangel's body acceptance revival meeting rolls into town, local diet execs and "fat shamer
Slashing Mona Lisa
β Scribed by Barr, D M
- Book ID
- 110474584
- Publisher
- Beachwalk Press, Inc.
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781949300062
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Killer body or body killer? When fat shaming backfires...
Most people are dying to lose a few pounds. Not so in Slashing Mona Lisa, where it's the weight-loss advocates who are losing their lives.
Whenever Terry Mangel's body acceptance revival meeting rolls into town, local diet execs and "fat shamers" turn up dead, often in grotesque, ironic ways. All single murders in small suburbs, no one's noticed the pattern...until now.
Rookie journalist Camarin Torres is a crusader against discrimination, partially to assuage the guilt she feels over the suicide of her obese, bullied twin sister. She reluctantly accepts a job offered by handsome publisher Lyle Fletcher, a widower with a vendetta, who sees Torres as salvation for Trend, his fledgling fashion magazine. Torres, however, detests everything the publication stands for, and joins solely to transform its judgmental, objectifying content.
As an unexpected romance blossoms, the overconfident, justice-hungry...
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