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You'd Look Better as a Ghost
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's Summary
“Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny.”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Party
A comic thriller following the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer, who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a secret—despite the efforts of a determined blackmailer
The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink—even before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces—something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who is about to discover her murderous little hobby.
The thing is, it's not sensible to tangle with a part-time serial killer, even one who is distracted by attending a weekly bereavement support group and trying to get her art career off the ground. Will Claire finish off her blackmailer before her pursuer reveals all? Let the games begin . . .
What the critics say
“Dark, creepy, and wholly fascinating, Wallace's imagining of the mind of a successful serial killer will be appreciated by readers who don’t mind sleeping with one eye open.”—Booklist
“Deliciously eerie and darkly funny. . . an uncommonly assured debut from a promising new voice in crime fiction.”—Publishers Weekly
“The female serial killer as antihero is a growing subgenre (see Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer, 2018), and Wallace’s sociopathic protagonist is a mordantly amusing addition. . . Dexter meets Killing Eve.”—Kirkus
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- LDanna
- 2024-03-28
Well worth the time.
In the past year, I've read at least six novels featuring female serial killers before reading this one. How I'll Kill You by Ren DeStefano, How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie, The Kind Worth Killing and The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson, How Can I Help You by Laura Sims, and You Know Her by Meagan Jennett have all preceded You'd Look Better as a Ghost, by author Joanna Wallace.
Wallace has put a unique spin on what's quickly becoming a familiar contemporary theme. The audiobook is absolutely listenable and, if you don't like the lead character Claire by the end, you will at least have gained some appreciation of why she is what she is. The book contains a decent amount of appropriate humour, which helps ease the tension when the story gets deep.
I took a liking to Claire almost immediately, which, in addition to competent writing, is the reason I kept listening. It was well worth my time.
With this debut behind her, the world can be Wallace's oyster. Fiona Hardingham handled the narration adroitly.
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