The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is, surprisingly, a very moving AND uplifting AND very funny book about domestic abuse and violence. Really!
Tag: crime/thriller
The List of Suspicious Things
Yorkshire Ripper. The List of Suspicious Things is a multilayered narrative and a totally immersive snapshot of the place and time.
Under Ground
Victorian filth is Under Ground. Feel it clinging to your shoes and smell it as it assails your nostrils. It is gross — and engrossing.
Murder by Natural Causes
If I’m going to use murder as light entertainment, at least it’s nice for the protagonist to be a woman. Especially if she’s good at her job.
A Bird in Winter
A Bird in Winter is beautifully written, well paced, at times exciting, at times more reflective. Older, career women will appreciate it!
Bad Men
Bad Men is sharp and fast and clever and very funny. You’ll love it. (Maybe less so if you’re a scumbag who hurts women.)
Black Thorn
A tense and claustrophobic mystery. An incisive look into family life and loyalties, ambition, criminal negligence, toxic greed and cover-up.
Tell Me What I Am
Portrays coercive control and domestic violence. Highlights the difficulties facing victims’ families and the lack of legal support.
Such Sharp Teeth
Rage, trauma, resilience and transformation. Women finding strength and learning to face the world without (or with less) fear.
The Other Half
Witty and well written satirical crime novel about contemporary London socialites.