Claws Out!

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller! The deliciously dark murder mystery novel from Bella Mackie, #1 bestselling author of HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY, new for 2026

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: ''Delicious'' JOJO MOYES ''Super-sharp, lethally witty'' NIGELLA LAWSON ''Wonderfully wicked'' RED ''You know Diana Leyland... she climbed the ladder by marrying a man on each rung! I think she gets rid of them when she''s got what she needs. I think she poisons them... I wonder who''s next .'' To lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Three must be murder... Diana Leyland has her sights set on a new target, David Farrand. His daughter Cat has other ideas...

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Bella Mackie's debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a #1 Sunday Timesbestseller and spent 47 weeks in the top 10 in paperback. She is the author of the Sunday Timesbestselling nonfiction Jog On, and has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women's Prize for Fiction and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.

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'A great romp and an acute satire' NIGELLA LAWSON**'Such wicked fun. A darkly delicious mystery and sharply observed satire in one wildly entertaining package. Bella Mackie has outdone herself' LUCY FOLEY****'Bella Mackie's books are salacious, gripping and very funny' JOE LYCETT**Meet Diana Leyland. Widowed three times, but let's not blame the woman now...Diana's on the hunt and has the perfect new target.

Finally, the type of wealth she's always dreamed of. A five-storey house in Hampstead, unfettered access to London's liberal elite and a bloated bank account.

If she can ensnare David Farrand, then she really will have clawed her way to the top.

The only snag? David's daughter, Cat.

Diana might have got her claws into David, but Cat is sharpening her own. Entitled, suspicious and used to getting her own way, she's been digging into Diana's past.

And it turns out Diana's last three marriages have one thing in common: the silly old fools are all six feet under.

To lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Three must be murder. 'Ingeniously plotted... deliciously spiky' SUNDAY TIMES**'Bella Mackie's books are a sharp magnificence; witty, biting and delicious' KATHERINE RUNDELL****'A gleefully black-hearted satire of well-heeled North London life' MAIL ON SUNDAY****'Incisive social satire and expert pacing will keep you laughing' GUARDIAN**