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Sean Beaudoin is the author of Going Nowhere Faster, Fade To Blue. and You Killed Wesley Payne. His latest book, an anti-zombie opus called The Infects, will be out fall 2012. Sean's articles and short stories have been appeared in numerous publications, including the Onion, Glimmer Train, The San Francisco Chronicle, Opium Magazine, The Rumpus, The New Orleans Review, Narrative Magazine, Barrelhouse, Instant City, The Nervous Breakdown, Bayou, Another Chicago Magazine, Bat City Review, Redivider, Ballyhoo, and Spirit-the inflight magazine of Southwest Airlines. He loves to talk about himself in the third person.


Kirkus Review: December 15, 2010

YOU KILLED WESLEY PAYNE
By Sean Beaudoin

February 2011/ Ages 12 & Up/ $16.99

ISBN: 978-0-316-07742-2


Tough, suit-sporting, no-nonsense high-school sleuth Dalton Rev stalks the killer who masterminded the murder of popular in-guy Wesley Payne. Hired by Wesley’s über-hot sister Macy, Dalton treads a dangerous path, where high-school cliques war like gangs and corru... read more »
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Published on December 30, 2010 11:18 • 109 views • Tags: crime, murder-mystery, noir, starred-review
Average rating: 3.26 · 741 ratings · 230 reviews · 6 distinct works
You Killed Wesley Payne
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Going Nowhere Faster
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 186 ratings5 editions
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Fade to Blue
2.95 of 5 stars 2.95 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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The Infects
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — expected publication 2012
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3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Fathermucker by Greg Olear
Fathermucker: A Novel
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Funny and a little heartbreaking, sexy and more than a little subversive, insightful and allusive—not adjectives you’d necessarily think would describe a novel about 24 hours in the life of a harried stay-at-home dad. At least not based on my own occ...more
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“Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.”
Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne

“Finding out what people don’t want you to know may be the scariest, most addictive thing of all.”
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“You, Stan, are covered with dirt and leaves.''
''I just applied for a job as a tree,'' I said. It made so little sense, he didn't even bother responding.”
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