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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
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to...
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The Housekeepers
Hay, Alex.
Paper Book
'Hay sets a cracking pace... with plenty of twists and a great deal of fun, this is the perfect holiday read' Guardian'Delightfully mischievous' The Times'Punch-the-air good, the Edwardian heist novel you never knew you needed. Flawless, lawless fun' Kiran Millwood...
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Don't swipe right: from serial dater to serial killer
Paper Book
'Kept me guessing and was so fun to read.' BRITNEY SPEARS, People Magazine Favorite Beach Read Pick 'Utterly compelling and laugh-out-loud funny.' KATY BRENT 'As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!' RUPERT...
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My sister, the serial killer
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
Winner Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For Mystery/Thriller Shortlisted For The 2019 Women's PrizeKorede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's...
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Never saw me coming : a novel
Kurian, Vera
Paper Book
Never Saw Me Coming is a compulsive, voice-driven thriller by an exciting new talent in fiction that will keep you pinned to the page and rooting for a would-be killer. You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice? ...
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The book of cold cases
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
In 1977, Claire Lake was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect, but she was acquitted. In 2017, Shea Collins runs a true crime website, a passion fuelled by the attempted...
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No tomorrow
Jennings, Luke
Paper Book
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Finlay Donovan is killing it
Cosimano, Elle
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Finlay Donovan knocks 'em dead
Cosimano, Elle
Paper Book
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Gathering dark
Fox, Candice
Paper Book
From Australia's most exciting and original crime writer comes another electrifying thriller, set in Los Angeles, introducing a new - and decidedly unconventional - team of 'detectives'. A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious crime boss. A disillusioned cop. ...
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Bury the lede
Dunn, Gaby
Paper Book
From New York Times-bestselling author Gaby Dunn comes a story of an ambitious young reporter and the potential murderess who will change her life. Named One of the 41 Best LGBTQ Book That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 by O: The Oprah Magazine.
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Bad girls
De Campi, Alex
Paper Book
In this heart-pounding, starkly colored, and visually stunning "noir comic not to be missed" (CrimeReads), three women are running out of time to get out of Cuba with six million dollars on the night of New Year's Eve 1958. Gangster's moll Carole, jazz singer Taffy, and...
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Lady killer. Volume one
Jones, Jo©±lle
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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
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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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