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My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

#839 of 8,085 books · #197 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2018). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

My Sister, the Serial Killer was one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time and a Booker Prize nominee. Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola's knife. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
ISBN-13
9780385544245
Topics
Sibling relationshipsFamily loyalty and complicityDark comedy and murder

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