It’s not often you come across a thriller that is as funny as it is scary but here is such a book with the title a slight give away to the tone. When Cat tries to settle her pre-wedding nerves by sleeping with her ex boyfriends her risk taking solution lands her in a lot more trouble than she could ever have imagined when they all turn up dead and she is the main suspect. A brilliant addition to the genre.

Synopsis

Returning to Scotland to organise her wedding, Catriona is overcome with the jitters. She decides to tie up loose ends before settling permanently in Tuscany, and seeks out her ex-boyfriends. Only problem is, they all end up dead and Catriona is the prime suspect.

Reviews

'A delight to find something new ... funny, moving, horrifying and compelling'
Times Literary Supplement



'FitzGerald ... is adept at arresting openings, tense cliffhangers and tumultuous climaxes'
The Herald

'Bloody Women is delicious, ingenious, inventive and mordantly funny. Helen FitzGerald has a real skill for making the totally absurd and goofy, thoroughly logical and reasonable.'
Big Beat from Badsville

About the Author

Helen FitzGerald is the second youngest of thirteen children. She grew up in the small town of Kilmore, Victoria, Australia, and studied English and History at the University of Melbourne. Via India and London, Helen came to Glasgow University where she completed a Diploma and Masters in Social Work. She has worked as a probation and parole officer for ten years, most of it in Barlinnie, where she helps to prepare serious offenders for release. She's married to screenwriter Sergio Casci, and they have two children. More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation