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After spending twenty years enduring her husband’s abuse, Sally snaps and kills him with a skillet during the COVID-19 lockdown. She’s got plenty of ideas for how to handle the body, but there are two potential issues—how to explain Jim’s disappearance to their adult children, and how to conceal the body from her nosy neighbor Edwina. A few blocks away, Ruth’s husband attacks her, then falls when she rushes away to escape his grasp. Sally discovers Ruth trying to burn his body, and they bond over their shared predicament. They are soon joined by Samira and Janey, who also have abusive husbands to bury. The quartet hatches a plan to conceal the men’s deaths and dispose of their bodies. Casale’s adult debut is a sharp, entertaining, and fast-paced story that’s as much about revenge as it is about sisterhood and liberation. While there are plenty of darkly comic moments and surprising plot twists, domestic violence is presented with frank realism that can be difficult to read. This intoxicating blend of revenge thriller and black comedy will appeal to fans of C. J. Skuse and Helene Tursten.