THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK Available to pre-order now One wealth -obsessed man - who is also dead. One status -obsessed woman - who is the perfect accessory. Their four inheritance -obsessed children - each with a killer instinct. And a murder -obsessed outsider looking to expose them all... Bella Mackie is back with a brilliantly funny and twisty mystery about dysfunctional families, awful rich people and true crime obsessives... and a murder or two, of course. How To Kill Your Family was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 18.04.22. It was in the Top 10 for 47 consecutive weeks.

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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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THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT****Delicious' JOJO MOYES

'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON

**'Wonderfully wicked'**RED

'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' REDMAGAZINE

'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