Genre: Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: March 21, 2023
Order Link: Amazon
Special thanks to Berkley for an arc.
Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.
Review:
Author Ren DeStefano has rendered a unique psychological thriller featuring twenty-five year old serial killer triplets in How I'll Kill You. The two older siblings have murdered their lovers with Sissy/Jade stepping in to clean up the scene, making sure no evidence remains. Iris and Moody think it's time for Jade to make her first kill, and she knows she needs to step up to the plate. The first order of business is to choose a mark, seduce him and over about six months time make him fall in love with her. Jade chooses Ellison, a young, vulnerable widow with a stepdaughter who still hangs around. Jade does all the right things to draw him in even as she fantasizes over ways to kill him. Their chemistry is insane and before you know it, Ellison is in love. Perfect! Problem is so is Jade. That's a big no/no - never ever fall for your mark. Jade knows her sisters won't let her back out of the kill. She'll have to finish the deadly deed even as it breaks her heart. There's no way she can choose Ellison over her sisters. The least she can do is find a way to kill him as painless as possible and bury him in a peaceful, beautiful place.
How I'll Kill You is an intense, improbable, insane story that I couldn't put down! DeStefano has created characters that jump off the page, grab you by the throat and draw you into the middle of their madness. While identical in appearance, each sister is an individual with totally different personalities although all are charlatans with the ability to assume different identities. Like sirens, they possess the competence to attract their marks and completely hypnotize them into being complacent before they strike. Through backstory, the triplets dark, sad past in the foster system is revealed and readers learn about a series of tragic events that molded two of them into killers with the other called in for cleanup. Once reunited, they swore to never part ways again and to always have each others' back. Now Jade is faced with an impossible decision - her sisters or only man she's ever loved. And she's carrying another secret - one she'll protect with her life.
DeStefano has brilliantly crafted a psychological masterpiece in How I'll Kill You. I read this story mostly in one sitting because I couldn't imagine how she'd tie the twisted plot lines together by the end. Any ending I imagined wasn't good - someone was going to lose, someone was going to die. Who would it be? Read this one if you love edge of your seat suspense, a challenge figuring things out, and/or a unique outside of the box, character driven thriller.
Synopsis:
Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.
Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love and then murdering him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison--and their mutual attraction is instant. While their relationship progresses, and most couples would be thinking about picking out china patterns and moving in together, Sissy's family is reminding her to think about picking out burial sites and moving on.
But then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and then, before she can help it, she's fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what happens; but if she betrays her family, will it be hers?
Make him love you.
Make him dead.
Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love and then murdering him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison--and their mutual attraction is instant. While their relationship progresses, and most couples would be thinking about picking out china patterns and moving in together, Sissy's family is reminding her to think about picking out burial sites and moving on.
But then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and then, before she can help it, she's fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what happens; but if she betrays her family, will it be hers?
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