Book Review: How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie is one of those books; dark, sardonic, and unapologetically entertaining that you know you shouldn’t enjoy reading but you do anyway. It’s the kind of story that makes you laugh at all the wrong moments, question your own moral compass, and yet, somehow, root for a murderer.

Published in 2021, Mackie’s debut novel became a sensation almost overnight. It spent weeks on bestseller lists, and not just because of its scandalous title. Beneath the surface of dry wit and razor-sharp humour lies a scathing commentary on class privilege, hypocrisy, and the modern obsession with image. With How to Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie proves that murder, when done in fiction, can be both a social critique and an oddly satisfying art form.

Plot Summary

Grace Bernard, a young woman sitting in prison for a crime she didn’t commit; ironic, since she’s guilty of several others. From her cell, Grace narrates her life story with chilling precision and biting humour, confessing how she meticulously planned and executed the murders of her wealthy estranged family members.

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