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Crime fiction featuring women with questionable morals.
Updated August 10, 2024
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Kill Your Husbands
Heath, Jack.
Paper Book
A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect for fans of Benjamin Stevenson.
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You'd look better as a ghost
Wallace, Joanna
Paper Book
A darkly funny and compulsive thriller, introducing your new favourite part-time serial killer
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The final girl support group
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick "The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes."-USA Today A can't-miss summer...
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The housekeepers : a novel
Hay, Alex (Writer)
Paper Book
The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs plot a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class Named a Best Book of Summer by The Washington Post * Good Housekeeping ...
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Don't Swipe Right
Chilton, L. M.
Paper Book
'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny.' KATY BRENT, author of How To Kill Men and Get Away With It'As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!' RUPERT HOLMESFinding true love can be murder.Gwen Turner, 29, entrepreneur and...
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My sister, the serial killer : a novel
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
"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 "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER...
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Never saw me coming
Kurian, Vera
Paper Book
'Gripping! With a college campus setting, charming psychopaths, and a bitingly clever voice, Never Saw Me Coming is a dazzling debut from a bold new talent.' Tess Gerritsen Meet Chloe. First-year student, ordinary, legging-wearing, girl next door...and highly...
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The book of cold cases
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads * A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down...
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No tomorrow
Jennings, Luke
Paper Book
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Finlay Donovan is killing it
Cosimano, Elle
Paper Book
"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It. A USA Today bestseller! One of Suspense Magazine's "Best Thrillers of 2021" One of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021 Nominated for...
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Finlay Donovan knocks 'em dead
Cosimano, Elle
Paper Book
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Gathering dark
Fox, Candice
Ebook
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Bury the Lede
Dunn, Gaby.
Ebook
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Bad girls
De Campi, Alex
Paper Book
NOMINATED FOR THREE EISNER AWARDS, INCLUDING: BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM, BEST WRITER, AND BEST LETTERING In this heart-pounding, starkly colored, and visually stunning graphic novel, three women have twelve hours to get out of Cuba with six-million dollars on the night of New Year's...
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Lady killer. Volume one
Jones, Jo©±lle
Paper Book
Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife and mother - but she's also a ruthless, efficient killer! She's balanced cheerful domestic bliss with coldly performed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American dream life is in danger! A brand-new original black...
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Compassion
Janson, Julie.
Paper Book
'You can't enslave us all, Captain!' I yelled into his face. 'We will resist, and you will die a beaten man. Our Blackfellows will rise...' From the acclaimed author of the Miles Franklin longlisted Madukka: The River Serpent (UWA...
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Iris
Mcgregor, Fiona.
Paper Book
Who is Iris Webber?A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover.A scammer, a schemer, a friend.A musician, a worker, a big-hearted fool.A woman who has prevailed against the toughest gangsters of the day, defying police time and again, yet is now trapped in a prison cell.Guilty or innocent?Rollicking through...
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Maids
Skelly, Katie
Paper Book
What starts as petty theft by the maids - and flashbacks to their tumultuous time in a convent - shortly turns into something more nefarious. Fuse the sisters' toxic upbringing, societal class exploitation, and increasingly unhinged abuse by Madame Lancelin and you have the catalyst for a ghastly...
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