My Sister, the Serial Killer

By Oyinkan Braithwaite

Book Overview

"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES

"The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE

A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends

"Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer."

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead.

Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner 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.

Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite's deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385544235
• ISBN13: 9780385544238
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.8" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Breezy yet substantive

A nice short read but one that makes you think about family responsibility, trauma, and friendship.

Fun but short

I really enjoyed this book and the narrator was great, but it all felt very rushed and abrupt. Still, a fun short read.

So much fun! 6/5 Stars!

I loved this entire book. The only problem I had with it was that it wasn’t long enough, haha! It was so fun reading a thriller book that wasn’t coated in Whiteness. I enjoyed taking a moment and looking up the occasional words I wasn’t familiar with. Learning new things regarding Nigerian culture along with some amazing writing.. *chefs kiss* loved it. Book came as described, will read again!