My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller

ISBN-13: 9781786495983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Opis

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... Shortlisted for The Women's Prize, 2019 Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019Evening Standard Bestseller, 2019Time's Bestseller, 2019Vogue's Best Books for Spring, 2019Elle's Books to Watch in 2019Tatler's Best Books of the New Year, 2019Buzzfeed's Book of the Year, 2018

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019__________'A literary sensation' Guardian'A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious' New York Times'Glittering and funny... A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart Financial Times__________When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...

O autorze

Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. She has had short stories published in anthologies and has also self published work. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top ten spoken word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam.www.oyinkanbraithwaite.com