Bella MackiesHow to Kill Your Familyis a darkly humorous debut novel that follows a cunning antihero as she gets her revenge.

When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when Im long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of twenty-eight, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mothers pleas for help, she vows revenge and coldly sets out to get her retributionby killing them all, one by one.

Compulsively readable, Bella Mackies debut novel is driven by a captivating first-person narrator who talks of self-care and social media while calmly walking the reader through her increasingly baroque acts of murder. But then, Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didnt commit.
Outrageously funny, compulsive, and subversive,How to Kill Your Familyis a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love . . . and murder.