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by Bella Mackie

A wild and twisted story of a conniving, cunning and terrifyingly smart woman’s quest for revenge.

I had high hopes that this would become an all time favourite, it had everything I could want in a book but whilst I definitely enjoyed it, it sadly didn’t meet my possibly too high expectations. I just wanted a little more from it. It wasn’t as funny as I’d hoped, gritty or addictive and the anticlimactic ending was as flat as a pancake.

That being said, it was a ride and a half. I was definitely hooked and enjoyed the reading experience. I just wish it had been unafraid to push things a little further and intertwine the ‘plot twist’ more thoroughly and maybe give Grace a more conclusive end, as the last few chapters felt abrupt.

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit.

When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one – and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love… and murder.

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.

Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer.