You know her

Title:

You know her

Author:

Jennett, Meagan, 1989- author.

Personal Author:

Jennett, Meagan, 1989- author.

ISBN:

9780374607098

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

354 pages ; 23 cm.

Abstract:

"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"-- Provided by publisher.

Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didńt tell them is that shés the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring all the men in the department snapping about a diversity hire. When she meets Sophie, they build an uneasy camaraderie over shared frustrations. As winter slides into spring and bodies start piling up, Nora begins to suspect that somethinǵs not quite right with the unnerving, enigmatic bartender. But will she be able to convince Murph, or will he keep laughing off the idea that the serial killer haunting their little town is a woman?

Subject Term:

Women serial murderers -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Women detectives -- Fiction.

Bartenders -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Virginia -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Gothic fiction.

Novels.

Summary:

"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"--

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Summary

"This book will be the talk of the genre. If you read one thriller this year, read this one." --Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Heartsick

Killing Eve meets Sharp Objects in this lush,savage Southern gothic thriller about twowomen: a fledgling murderer and the cophell-bent on catching her.

Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam tells the cops when they question her about the customer whose mutilated body has just been found. What she doesn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him.

Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and is trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring all her male colleagues griping about a diversity hire. When she meets Sophie, they build an uneasy camaraderie over shared frustrations.

As winter slides into spring and bodies start piling up, Nora begins to suspect that something's not quite right with the unnerving, enigmatic bartender. But will she be able to convince Murph, or will he keep laughing off the idea that the serial killer haunting their little town is a woman?

A crackling cat-and-mouse thriller set against the verdant backdrop of small-town Virginia, Meagan Jennett's You Know Her probes the boundaries of female friendship and the deadly consequences of frustration fermenting into rage.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A subversive serial-killer tale that dives headfirst into a furious mind. Sophie Braam bartends in small-town Virginia, bearing witness to awful behavior from her male patrons and co-workers, whom she likens to insects: "A thousand licking tongues laid their voices like eggs in the soft places of me, hatching with every slippery compliment drifting down my thigh…an entire universe of mites writhing, making a home, under my skin." One night, Mark Dixon--a wealthy friend of the restaurant owner--arrives while Sophie is closing, needles her with his drunken entitlement, and sexually assaults her. Sophie snaps and strangles Mark in self-defense. These opening chapters build tension masterfully. Jennett plays with our sympathies by rooting us in Sophie's point of view, demonstrating how her murderous impulses are rooted in relatable and well-articulated rage against misogynistic violence. Sophie explains: "A witch in the woods is not born overnight; we are grown." Meanwhile, Nora Martin, a biracial police officer investigating Mark's murder, is haunted by the "haints" of female murder victims. This teases an intriguing premise that never fully actualizes, wherein the detective on the killer's trail understands and even sympathizes with the killer, à la Will Graham from Thomas Harris' Hannibal series. (Sophie possesses shades of Hannibal Lecter's artful hubris and anatomical knowledge, combined with the sociopathy of Lou Ford from Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.) Sophie's lacerating insights about patriarchy are woven into tangled screeds whose ultimate point is that "all men are the same," a position that goes relatively unchallenged. The deliriously vengeful narration compels the reader to continue but is bloated with so much grotesquely beautiful imagery and metaphor that the language often impedes narrative momentum. A fascinating debut crime novel that is more despairing than satisfying. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.