Published By: Zaffre
Pages: 352
Released On: 14/08/2025
Bad men beware . . .
Saffy Huntley-Oliver’s life is going great. Even better than usual! She’s got a fabulous new boyfriend, Jonathan, and they are crazy in love; she has literally got away with (lots of) murder; her favourite hairstylist has got out of jail so she can finally get a proper blow-out; and now that she’s no longer single, she can get back to her favourite hobby of killing all the bad men she can find.
Well. There are one or two teensy snags. For one, her beloved sister Susie is still dating that manbunned toerag Finlay and it is so hard not to murder him. For another, Jonathan’s dog, Girl, sheds a lot, and so Saffy can no longer wear anything velvet or black. Jonathan himself seems to have lost his taste for murder, and is ignoring all the tempting corpses that Saffy keeps putting in his way, which is a crying shame because he looks so sexy covered in blood.
All of this would be easy to ignore in the flush of new love; except that those idiot police keep on sniffing around, looking for whoever killed that kinky sex pest Tory. And Susie keeps on forwarding inspirational Instagram memes that relate eerily to Saffy’s latest murders. And someone has cut the brakes on her car, and stolen her favourite knife, and even-so rude-killed one of her marks before she could reach him.
The police are never going to find her…but has someone else?
*****
Thanks to NetGalley and Zaffre for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.
Oh I loooooooooove Julie’s books.
This is a sequel to Bad Men, and whilst I loved that book, I admit I can’t quite remember all the goings-on and so I was concerned I wouldn’t keep up with this. But, whilst there are little nods to the previous book, I think you can read this completely on its own and you wouldn’t be missing out.
I don’t know whether I’d describe it as morbidly sexy or sexily morbid – but the point still stands.
I think novels about women killing despicable men needs its own genre. Because I feel I can’t put it in the ‘thriller’ category as I feel something different when I read them. They’re thrilling yes, but there’s almost a feel of cosy crime about them (bear with me), and a contemporary love story that just so happens to have murder in it. And I love it for wat it is.
Whilst I couldn’t remember everything that happened in Bad Men, I do remember that I loved it, and if this was anywhere near as good then I would be in for a treat and it was. She’s made Saffy so human – not that she wasn’t in the first book but it almost felt like that was about her murders and this one is more about her as a character who just so happens to be a murderer. She’s so well rounded and steals every single scene she’s in.
This one is less violent than the first one. There’s a lot less killing but it still manages to be just as absorbing and addictive as the first one.
This had me so hooked, it’s so good Such depth with everything. There’s old characters and some new, but all fabulous. It’s not an easy book to read at times, there’s some difficult topics, and there are some horrific people, but it is just such a good read.
Whilst I didn’t think book one necessarily needed a sequel, this definitely does and I NEED it!
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