My Sister, the Serial Killer

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize, 2019

Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019

Evening Standard Bestseller, 2019
Time's Bestseller, 2019
Vogue's Best Books for Spring, 2019
Elle's Books to Watch in 2019
Tatler's Best Books of the New Year, 2019
Buzzfeed's Book of the Year, 2018

Sunday Times bestseller and The Times #1 bestsellerA Between The Covers Book Club Pick 2023Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019Winner of the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime ThrillerCapital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019'A literary sensation'Guardian'A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious'New York Times'Glittering and funny... A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart' Financial TimesWhen Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...

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My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize, 2019

Winner of the LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, 2019

Evening Standard Bestseller, 2019
Time's Bestseller, 2019
Vogue's Best Books for Spring, 2019
Elle's Books to Watch in 2019
Tatler's Best Books of the New Year, 2019
Buzzfeed's Book of the Year, 2018

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Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. She has had short stories published in anthologies and has also self published work. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top ten spoken word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam.

www.oyinkanbraithwaite.com

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A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious'
New York Times

'Doesn't disappoint... A classic love triangle, with the added twist of the knife'
Guardian

'Glittering and funny... A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart' Financial Times

When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...