How to Kill Your Family: THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (International Edition)

Outrageously funny, compulsively readable, and subversive, How to Kill Your Family is a wickedly dark romp about class, family, love . . . and murder. Coming soon as an 8-episode series on Netflix, executive produced and starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

Bella Mackie's debut novel is driven by a captivating first-person narrator who talks of self-care and social media while calmly walking the reader through her increasingly baroque acts of murder. But then, Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit....

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge and coldly sets out to get her retribution--by killing them all, one by one.

This darkly humorous debut novel follows a cunning antihero as she gets her revenge. "Funny, sharp, dark, and twisted." --Jojo Moyes

When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I'm long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of twenty-eight, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.

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Published Apr 14, 2022

368 pages

Average rating: 6.4

265 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

PhoebsLou
Nov 22, 2025
3/10 stars
I really didn't like this book.. I thought each chapter was too long (as someone who likes to stop each reading session at the beginning of a new chapter, it was annoying to have to stop in the middle of the chapter because each one was like 30/40 pages long) I ended up hating the main character halfway through - I found her to be very judgemental of everyone around her and hating a lot of specific groups of people, and tended to complain a lot. I also found that the writer tended to insert her own rants during the book which lasted paragraphs of her opinions. I just personally didn't like this book.
Anne-Marie Eberhardt
Jul 02, 2025
10/10 stars
Man, there were some seriously shady characters in this book. Funny, shocking and twisted.
Amanda Lynne
Jun 17, 2025
6/10 stars
I enjoyed it until the end.. justice for Grace!
Booksilike
May 20, 2025
8/10 stars
Quite funny and unique
ediehas
Feb 28, 2025
8/10 stars
dark, funny, well paced fun read

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