Pre-Order LAST NIGHT WAS KILLER coming July 2026
from William Morrow“Tilly Turner is glorious - funny, haunted, and utterly human. Last Night Was Killer is suspense with heart and a wicked sense of humour.”
—Joanna Wallace, author of You’d Look Better as a Ghost
"On any list of writers that make me laugh, Mary Pauline Lowry is near the top. Last Night Was Killer, but it's also killer fun."
—Steven Rowley, author of The Guncle
Last Night Was KillerMeet Tilly Turner. She’s a heartbroken single mom, back in the hometown she thought she’d escaped forever. She hoped pole dancing class would cheer her up, but after a wild night out with her fellow pole newbies, she wakes up with a killer hangover—and a dead man in her trunk. She can’t remember how he got there, but suspects she might have had something to do with it.
“An utterly delightful page-turning story that is equal parts heart and laughs. . . Buckle up for a wild, laugh-out- loud, one-of-a-kind reading adventure (emphasis: adventure) that only the singular Mary Pauline Lowry could deliver.”
—Christine Pride, author of All the Men I’ve Loved Again
Mary Pauline LowryMary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novels The Roxy Letters and Wildfire. She has an MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Texas and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University. Her work has appeared in O Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Millions, and other publications. She writes a weekly newsletter about comedic pop culture called Make It Funny.