InvestiDate Author Takes Dating to a Whole New Level of Paranoia
LatestAuthor Maria Coder has parlayed her experience as a crime reporter and a dater of shitty dudes into a new book called InvestiDate, which, if its clever title has proved too elusive for you, aims to help readers uncover the truth about their new squeezes. What, you ask with polite but no less urgent anticipation, are some of these secret tips for ferreting out the serial killer in your new SO? Use the internet, use the internet, and, um, probably call the registrar’s office of the college that this charming new romantic partner claims to have attended.
The New York Daily News writes that Coder, whose surname would be pretty cool if she were actually a movie crime reporter investigating a serial killer and not, rather, an investidator, was inspired to write InvestiDate in the wake of high-profile crimes like Natalee Holloway’s disappearance and the Laci Peterson murder. She says that she wrote her book in order “to help people avoid the cheaters, the liars and the really dangerous people who are out there.” Dangerous people like, say, a Tom Noonan lookalike whose unsuspecting new girlfriend can’t tell how completely creepy he is because she’s blind and thinks going to hug a sleepy tiger is the best date idea ever. Or something.