My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Review written by a cozy specialist (August 2021): Mystery and thrillers go best with wooden-wick candles. The crackling noise that resembles a fireplace makes the story feel as though it’s being told around a campfire. Oyinkan’s writing powers are a force to be reckoned with. You’ll never want to put this down.

”Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. 

Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.”