A good mother will kill for her family. And, sometimes, for fun in this wickedly dark and hilarious debut (Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of My Husbands Wife).
Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her to-do list: help her husband make partner by flattering his masculinity, secure her dream home in Hampstead, get her daughter into private school, host her four-year-olds birthday party, and remove the dead body from her living room.
Lalla cant pretend she hasnt missed the adrenaline rush that comes with transgressing. And, as a wife and mother, shes already an expert multitasker. So disposing of a body, framing a friend, and being the worlds best homemaker should be easy to achieve.
Its just that her husband seems distracted, her daughter faces an uncertain academic future, and then there is the unexpected intruder in her living room, a stranger she has stabbed seven times. Avoiding the law is the least of her worriesnot when she has a past to keep hidden.
Brimming with brio, humor, and just a dash of murder, A Sociopaths Guide to a Successful Marriage introduces a brilliant new anti-heroine in the most wildly entertaining novel you'll read this year (A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window).
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