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Book review: Kill Your Boss by Jack Heath

November 14, 20252 min read

Kill Your Boss by Jack Heath is the third in the ‘Kill your….’ series featuring DS Kiara Lui. I jokingly tried to guess what the next one would be in my review of Kill Your Husbands… one of my guesses was ‘colleagues’.

I was close but no banana. Though many will relate to this as I’m fairly sure most of us have had a horrendous boss at some point in their life. In a letter by Heath (in the review copy I received) he talks about unlikeable characters and it has to be said the victim here—Neville—is certainly that. In fact I love that no one (other than the victim’s parents) even pretends to have a good word to say about the victim… so the suspects are many!

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Book review: Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath

November 28, 20233 min read

Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath is very cleverly written because in the present the police are interviewing the survivors politely, using their title and surname, but in the past (well, very recent past… last weekend) they all use first names. So for a long time we don’t know who’s dead and who’s not.

Weirdly it didn’t occur to me until I started the book that it was a follow-up to Kill Your Brother, which I enjoyed when it was released in 2021. It’s not exactly a sequel as such, rather it features two of the same characters, cop (here recently promoted to detective) Kiara Lui and her girlfriend Elise (held capture in the first book). Their relationship is on rocky ground here, well so thinks Kiara as Elise is acting strangely and keeping secrets from her.

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Book review: Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath

November 30, 20213 min read

I was a bit nervous going into Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath as we’re told the premise: it’s a bit of a kill or be killed kinda scenario and I had flashbacks to Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge, a novel in which couples or pairs are captured and have to do just that.

But Heath goes further here. Thankfully it isn’t just a gladiator-style fight to the death, but far more complex – both in terms of our characters and the depth of their backstories and personalities as well as the events unfolding in the present.

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