I saw the blurb for this in Red Magazine, and thought it sounded interesting (and with a similar vibe to Bella Mackie’s ‘How To Kill Your Family‘ which I very much enjoyed) – so I requested an ARC from NetGalley and was lucky enough to be granted it. Here’s the blurb:

“It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to kill them . . .
Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It’s not the fact that she’s a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she’s quite proud of that. After all she’s only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place.
No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she’s busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend.
But if there’s one thing Saffy knows, it’s how to get her man . . “

The book is told from two perspectives – that of Saffy (or Seraphine Huntley-Oliver to give her her Sunday name!) with chapters told in the first person, and then from Jon – a true crime podcaster, with chapters told in the third person. I liked this change in ‘voice’ throughout the book (and thought it must have been quite hard to write like that?)

The initial chapter, when Saffy is still quite young, was quite disturbing – and I did wonder if the book was going to be that dark throughout. But it was actually setting the scene for why Saffy is how she is – a serial killer of bad men!

Whilst the rest of the book does contain more murders – they don’t seem as upsetting, and there’s a lot of dark humour throughout.

As well as the ‘love story’ between Saffy and Jon – there are various murders and other crimes – and the supporting cast of Saffy’s sister and her loser boyfriend, and Jon’s wife all add to the substance of the book.

There are lots of twists and turns and murders which make it very interesting – and I was always keen to see what happened next. I thought a couple of the twists were quite predictable – but most definitely not all! It was a really fun read – honestly, despite being about serial killers it really was!!

A big thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC. It was released in July 2023 – so you can but it already – and it would make a perfect summer read.