Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks.
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This week’s neglected book
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
Published by Bantam on January 14, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Pages: 352
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Two former serial killers trying to keep their past buried realize that old habits die hard in this “wildly original, razor-sharp thriller” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark).
“An invaluable manual that I return to again and again.”―Hugh GrantI wasn't smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they're murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Meanwhile, Fox has really taken to being a father. Always the planner, he loves being five steps ahead of everyone and knowing exactly what’s coming around the bend. Plus, if anyone can understand Hazel needing one more kill, it’s Fox. But then Hazel kills someone without telling Fox. And when police show up at their door, Hazel realizes it will take everything she has to keep her family together.
Why did I add A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage to my bookshelf?
This is one of the books that I probably would have read around this time last year, but then I had to deal with a torn retina and was under doctor’s orders not to read for the next several months. My husband and I have been sick at home for the past week, and I think that I might have my reading mojo back. I am sad that I have been sick (Covid is no joke!), but happy that I have rediscovered my love of reading. Anyway, this book sounds like something that I would enjoy, and I can’t wait to get the chance to finally give it a try.
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
I am so sorry this post is late. Between Christmas, being sick, and not leaving my house for days, I don’t know what day of the week it is anymore.
What are your thoughts? Have you read this book? Would you recommend it?
I hope it’s all up from here that you are feeling better and enjoying your reading. Merry Christmas!
I haven’t read this one.
Just the title alone makes me want to read it! Merry Christmas!
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 😀
Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas and all the very best for 2026.
I’ve got this one on my TBR, too!
I hope you and your husband are feeling better! I just realized you also have LibraryThing! I think you’re the first person I’ve seen that also uses it (send you a friend request). I also noticed I wasn’t officially following you, but I am now (sorry about that). I’ve been cleaning up my blog and websites after not blogging consistently for awhile.
I’ll definitely be participating in this again once I sort myself out. Happy New Year! 🙂