With jolting bright yellow shades contrasted against a female black silhouette, the cover of Deadly by Julie Chibbaro is both striking and smart. The detailed silhouette of a young woman flows down one half of the front cover, the attire and hairstyle of a woman from the early 1900s. The dress and hairstyle also indicate that this is a historical novel. The spider-like cell images are eerie as they crawl up the form of the woman. The “invisible killer” described in the byline is typhoid fever. With this, the woman pictured could possibly be Typhoid Mary, an iconic figure in the typhoid scare of the 1900s… Or could it be someone else? Perfectly macabre and grotesque.