Kill Yours, Kill Mine
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
"A love letter to Hitchcock and Highsmith, fueled by women's rage. Once you start you won't be able to stop." — Hayley Scrivenor
"Grieving women sign up for Strangers on a Train–style revenge in this brisk spine-tingler from Kovacic" — Publishers Weekly
Mia's grief counselling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers.
Mia has been gathering broken women together for a radical form of group therapy. Amy. Gabrielle. Katy. Brooke. Olivia. Five women crippled with grief by the murders of their sisters—and seething with rage that the partners who killed them all walk free. She just needs one more.
When Mia meets Naomi, she knows she has found the perfect candidate, but Naomi is resistant. She only needs to meet the others before she realizes that they, too, are consumed with desire for hands-on revenge. Under Mia's guidance, the women devise a plan to heal themselves. They'll take back their lives from the men who took their sisters. The premise is satisfyingly simple: I'll kill yours if you kill mine...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grieving women sign up for Strangers on a Train–style revenge in this brisk spine-tingler from Kovacic (Just Murdered). Naomi has never gotten over the death of her sister, Jo, who was stabbed several years ago by her abusive rugby player husband. Encouraged by her therapist, Mia DeVries, to join a support group for traumatized women, Naomi soon learns that the five other members of the group also lost a sister to a violent partner. Mia offers the women a surprising solution to their anger and despair: murder. Each woman—including the soft-spoken Gabrielle, abrasive Amy, and no-nonsense Katy—will target the killer of another group member's sibling, bringing along a second member for backup. Shocked but willing, Mia agrees, hoping the plan will bring her the closure no amount of therapy ever has. Kovacic's dialogue sometimes clangs (multiple characters say they'd "do anything to make that bastard pay"), and the narrative structure grows repetitive by the end, but nauseating statistics about domestic abuse and a potent streak of righteous anger hold the proceedings together. Readers will take a grisly satisfaction in seeing these women mete out vengeance.
