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Also by M.L. Rio:

Hot Wax, September 2025
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If We Were Villains, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book

IF WE WERE VILLAINS
By: M.L. Rio

Flatiron Books
April 2017
On Sale: April 11, 2017
368 pages
ISBN: 125009528X
EAN: 9781250095282
Kindle: B01LX8L8SH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.

As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words.