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THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, You Magazine… 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES ‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’ Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that’s when everything comes crashing down… 'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’ SUNDAY TIMES, Pick of the Month ‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE ‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME ‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS 'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE: ‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

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'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’SUNDAY TIMES, Pick of the Month ‘Undeniably funny’ GUARDIAN ‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER ‘Ridiculous fun – with awful characters… a surefire bestseller’ iNews ‘A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent’ The Times 'An English Succession on steroids. Terrible people doing terrible things – all conveyed with a heady sense of dark humour, mordant wit, and a few “did she *really* go there?” moments' SARAH VAUGHAN 'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist'SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘Brilliant!’ SUN ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE ‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘Gripping, sharp and funny' WOMAN & HOME ‘Deliciously camp… will be enjoyed by fans of Saltburn and Knives Out’ NEW STATESMAN 'Thoroughly enjoyable, like Succession rewritten by Agatha Christie’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘A tense and twisted drama… a funny, dark, rugpull of a read that you won’t want to put down’ HEAT 'The right side of spiky and the right kind of fun, with huge personality' ADELE PARKS ‘Fabulous… I didn’t want it to end’ IRISH INDEPENDENT ‘A witty and entertaining mash-up of class, wealth and crime’ IRISH TIMES ‘Wickedly funny, and sometimes just plain wicked, this is a witty read on those wanting what they feel they're owed’ BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Praise for HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY: ‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN ‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES ‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis – even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her’ PANDORA SYKES ‘Deliciously addictive…brilliantly executed’ i PAPER ‘Addictive… Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years’ EMMA GANNON ‘A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media’s obsession with murder’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘You’ll be gripped… Grace’s emotional detachment throughout will give you chills’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘Hilarious and dark’ ELLE ‘Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is “selfcare” sharpen this debut novel’ OBSERVER ‘Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist’ IRISH INDEPENDENT ‘Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets’ GRAZIA ‘Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read’ PRIMA ‘A deliciously dark debut novel’ RED ‘One very entertaining read’ WOMAN’S WAY

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Bella Mackie, Sunday Times bestselling author of Jog On, has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice.

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