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_This post contains __SPOILERS__ for the _You_ book and TV series._ Joe Goldberg is coming back for book three of the _You_ series, and this time he’s taking a page from John Mellencamp and

moving to a “Small Town” — the serial killer is sick of being chaotic evil and thinks living somewhere more tight-knit will finally make him a better person. Plus, he apparently just really

likes that song, according to author Caroline Kepnes. Kepnes tells _Rolling Stone_ that she’s writing books three and four of the thriller series for Random House, following 2016’s sequel

_Hidden Bodies. _Books one and two inspired the first two seasons of TV show _You_, which stars Penn Badgley as Goldberg. “I’m so freaking excited, working on the book now, revising a few

parts,” Kepnes says. “Joe decides to live in a small community in the Pacific Northwest with a low crime rate. He volunteers in a local library. Joe thinks he can breathe in a small town

because small town people are good people.” In 2014’s _You_ and 2016’s sequel _Hidden Bodies, _we meet Joe, a insular bookseller who falls in love with Guinevere Beck, an aspiring writer who

walks into his store one day. After stalking her to better understand her and her interests, he moves in on his target — killing not only her boyfriend but her best friend along the way.

Finally, he kills her, after locking her in an underground cage after she tries to leave him. _Hidden Bodies_ sees Joe moving to L.A. to escape his past — but he soon falls into old

patterns, stalking heiress Love Quinn and eventually becoming her boyfriend. A few more murders later and he’s caught out by the police — leaving a pregnant Love behind. If readers are

afraid that Joe turning over a new leaf will mean less murder in book three, Kepnes assures us that is not the case. “Yes, the new book has a body count,” she says. He also somehow finds his

way out of prison, she adds, although doesn’t specify how. The author hints that music will also somehow factor into book three, which makes sense as it takes place in the Pacific

Northwest, a mecca for Nineties music. “Joe meets a former grunge rocker,” she says. “I wrote some lyrics for the imaginary band. Gulp.” _You_ got the TV treatment in 2018 via Lifetime, then

a second season on Netflix in late 2019. Season two did not hew as closely to _Hidden Bodies_, with Joe and Love moving to the suburbs at the end to live happily ever after — although,

given his lust for an unseen neighbor, Joe isn’t ready to give up his stalkerish ways. It’s rumored that there will be a third season of the show, but it’s unclear, should it come back, if

it would follow Kepnes’ storyline. “I hope we get season three; I want more TV and more memes!” she says. No word yet on when book three will arrive, but, in the meantime, Kepnes says Joe

will keep evolving throughout the series. “Joe Goldberg is a father now. And that’s a life-altering experience that motivates him to make the world a safer place.”