Eat What You Kill

This review can also be found at [URL not allowed] This was just okay for me. I have had this book for years and started it a few times only to quickly set it aside when it failed to hook me quickly. It did take me a bit to really get into the story and I can’t say that it ever fully gra......more

I've purposely been dragging my feet on this review, as I'm not entirely sure what to say. I can honestly say that Evan Stoess may be ever bit as off putting and terrible as the unforgettable narrator of American Psycho, a fellow narcissist and capitalist, Patrick Bateman. Evan is a slightly tamer p......more

EAT WHAT YOU KILL was released by St. Martin's on March 25. Here is my favorite review to date, from Mystery Scene Magazine: After experiencing firsthand the negative effects of an “act of God” on the stock of a company he was touting (when that firm’s charismatic leader dies suddenly of a heart atta......more

In some strange way, The pychopathic stock analyst Evan Stoess in Ted Scofield's debut novel Eat What You Kill reminds me of Clyde Griffiths, the struggling lower class dupe from Theodore Dreiser's classic An American Tragedy. Both are from less than desirable circumstances, both are obsessed with j......more

Evan Stoess, after a deplorable childhood, becomes a Wall Street analyst obsessed with the good life, or what he considers to be the good life. Furthermore, he's willing to do pretty much anything to obtain it. The plot moves along quite smartly and it's a quick read. The financial industry details......more