Bad Men
The serial killer you've been waiting for, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'Fans of How To Kill Your Family will love Saffy, the serial-killing heroine of Bad Men' - RED MAGAZINE
'Silence of the Lambs meets Sex and the City' - FT
From million-copy bestselling author Julie Mae Cohen comes the razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat feminist rage thriller of Summer 2023.
*A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK*
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 . . .
Praise for BAD MEN:
'The feminist serial killer you didn't know you were waiting for. Sensational' - CLARE MACKINTOSH
'I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a thriller this much' - ERIN KELLY
'Had me turning the pages like a fiend' - CJ SKUSE
'Fast and furious and very, very funny' - TAMMY COHEN
'Bloody brilliant. Sharp and darkly hilarious' - ANNA MAZZOLA
'Will have you cheering and laughing in equal measure' - PRIMA
Customer Reviews
Lady killer
3.5 stars
The author is American born, educated at Brown and Cambridge, and now lives in England. She writes “book club novels under the name Julie Cohen, and feminist thrillers under the name Julie Mae Cohen,” and is “Vice President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, a founder member of our Rainbow Chapter for LGBQIA+ writers, and a winner of the RNA’s Inclusion Award for championing diversity in romantic fiction.” Her words, not mine.
In Ms C’s contribution to a burgeoning sub-genre about female serial killers, the protagonist is a late-20s, upper crust English gal, who is independently wealthy thanks to dual inheritances. She’s devoted to her younger sister, and to ridding the world of the kind of men alluded to in the title. Here, she does more stalking than killing, after finding a “good man” in the form of a late 30s true crime podcast host and author, whose missus has just given him the flick because he’s not paying her enough enough attention. (Our gal’s a psychopath, remember. Her concept of good is likely to be different from yours or mine.) With that setup, what could possibly go wrong, right?
Ms C breaks no new ground but serves up good, if not particularly memorable, entertainment. The writing is slick, and spiced with sly humour. The pacing is satisfactory. The ending paves the way for a sequel if the author so wished.