There’s a seditious pleasure in its momentum. This book is, above all, built to move, to hurtle forward-and it does so, dizzyingly. “It’s Lagos noir-pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan…. “A taut, rapidly paced thriller that pleasurably subverts serial killer and sisterhood tropes for a guaranteed fun afternoon.” -H UFFINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER.Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. Three and they label you a serial killer.” WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERĪ short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends “The wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” –MARIE CLAIRE “Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan…This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember.” –NEW YORK TIMES But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” -MARIE CLAIRE.WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
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