User:Premeditated Chaos/These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights is a 2020 thriller novel by American writer Micah Nemerever. Set in 1973 Pittsburgh, the novel explores the dysfunctional relationship between two gay college boys who decide to commit a murder together. These Violent Delights was loosely inspired by the Leopold and Loeb kidnap murder of 1924 and the Parker–Hulme murder case of 1954, both of which involved murders committed by pairs of young people involved in intense relationships. Critical reception to the novel was largely positive.

Critical reception

 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/books/review/alaoui-selfon-nemerever.html
 * https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-author-micah-nemerever-reinvents-the-story-of-homicidal-duo-leopold-and-loeb-in-these-violent-delights/
 * https://lambdaliterary.org/2020/12/these-violent-delights/
 * https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062963635
 * https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/25428-micah-nemerever-these-violent-delights-fiction/
 * https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/dark-academia/the-10-best-dark-academia-books/#10-how-we-fall-apart-by-katie-zhao
 * https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/these-violent-delights-review-micah-nemerever