![]() Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite's deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening. 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, 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 ![]()
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