Utterly brilliant and darkly humorous.

Haze and Fox will live on in my head for a LONG time, and I would love to see a sequel featuring Jenny too.

If you like a good thriller, but perhaps need something of a palate cleanse, then I absolutely recommend A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage. Laugh out loud funny in places: it's an average marriage just with the added complication of man and wife being serial killers.

A very different kind of book and not necessarily what I was expecting but maybe I didn't really know what to expect. I enjoyed it and I'm glad that it concluded the way it did. Without giving too much away, it had a touch of 'the kind worth killing ' about it.

What a fantastic premise - a couple bound together by their love of murder, now navigating life with a baby while grappling with the loss of their passion.

A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage offers a darkly entertaining take on relationships, parenthood, and the secrets couples keep.

Haze and Fox are far from an ordinary married couple.

Once jet-setting assassins, eliminating ‘bad’ men while living in luxury, their world shifts when Haze becomes pregnant.

Fox decides it’s time to leave their murderous lifestyle behind for the sake of their daughter, Bibi, and embrace a ‘normal’ suburban existence.

But for Haze, domesticity feels suffocating.

As her marriage loses its spark, she finds herself craving the thrill of the kill - until one night, she gives in to temptation, taking a life on her own.

Now she must conceal the truth, not just from Fox, but also from her new friend, a police detective on maternity leave.

Unbeknownst to Haze, Fox has his own ways of coping with the loss of their former life, while also contending with his controlling family in America, whose interference threatens everything they’ve built.

This is an engaging and original story, exploring marriage, parenthood, and the compromises people make for love - albeit with a murderous twist.

While Haze and Fox believe their struggles are unique, the underlying themes of identity, relationship dynamics, and adjusting to life after a baby are surprisingly universal.

The inclusion of excerpts on marriage advice adds an amusing contrast to their highly unconventional situation, while the alternating perspectives between Haze and Fox keep the narrative fresh and well-paced.

Haze’s sharp wit and dry humour inject levity into the darker themes, particularly in her awkward attempts to make mum friends.

Overall, A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage is a well-paced, darkly comic read that delivers on both thrills and laughs.

An entertaining, offbeat take on love, secrets, and the lengths people will go to in order to keep their relationships alive.

With thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A brilliant read. I really enjoyed the concept of a serial killing couple who only kill those who have done wrong. Reminded me a little of the Dexter character & his moral compass.

I did not finish this book as I did not enjoy it. I couldn’t get over the repeated references to “bad men.” Book was not for me.

i did really enjoy this! it had a good pace and the characters were really well written. it had really good twists and I found the book flowed really smoothly between chapters.

I loved this story. I don't think I've read anything like this in quite some time and even then it was probably nothing like this.

2 serial killers who fall for each other, continue killing together until family life causes them to call a halt on their activities. This family life and the break in killing lead to potential troubles in the relationship and the story jumps from the POV of one protagonist to the other frequently throughout the book.

I found this to be very much on the dark side of humour and read through it very quickly as it was so enjoyable.

No further spoilers regarding the storyline from me, but I would recommend this to anyone.

Thanks to the the author, publisher and NetGalley for my copy.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and would definitely recommend and even read it again.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the chance to read this ARC.

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I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. A quick read to fly through, with compelling characters and an even complicated marriage.

I kind of wished we got a more fleshed out resolution at the end— but their marriage problems getting resolved after a murder definitely fits their MO

4 stars

A really fun quick read, I read it in one sitting. I enjoyed the writing style and loved the characters.

Two former serial killers get married and realise that trying to keep their past buried is not easy: old habits die hard. Being married with a baby is not what Hazel thought she'd end up doing with her life, so when she does something to bring the Police to their door, she has to find a new way to protect those she loves.

Told from the viewpoint of both Hazel and Fox, in both the past and the present, this can feel jerky at times, especially with the added phone texts and magazine articles adding to the narrative complexity. However, there are light moment and humorous elements which do make this an enjoyable read overall.

I actually really enjoyed this book and I read it in one sitting!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book.

I really enjoyed this one. A couple who are serial killers didn’t feel like couple goals until I read this.

Dark humour, many twists and turns. Highly recommend as a beach read!

A very addictive book- I was hooked from the beginning and really enjoyed reading it till the end.

Fox and Haze connected over their mutual hobby of killing. Now they are happily married living in a beautiful home raising their beautiful daughter Bibi. Before Bibi was born, they made a pact that they would put their hobby aside so that they can raise their daughter. Can they both keep their promises?

This book definitely gave me vibes from the movie Mr and Mrs Smith, it was funny whilst also being action packed. There was times when I was saying ‘oh no!’ I absolutely love the relationship Haze and Fox have with each other and enjoyed how the book would alternate from the two perspective’s.

"I may have questioned many things in life, but I never questioned whether the men I killed deserved to die."

Haze and Fox have an unconventional marriage. However, what else could one expect from two serial killers? What is the likelihood of two serial killers meeting and falling in love?
Their moral compass seems quite sound, because they only kill people who deserve it.

"I had found my Mr. Right to help me take out all those Mr. Wrongs."

The question is what might happen if two serial killers found themselves unable to trust one another? How would they adapt to living seemingly ordinary lives? And what would happen if they began to deceive each other?
This is when things get a bit crazy!

This was such a fun read! The best way to describe it is Dexter meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

I enjoyed this book but I didn’t love it.
2 serial killers get married and kill their way around Europe until they set up a ‘normal’ life due to becoming pregnant and having a baby.

The female MC Hazel isn’t satisfied with her (what seems like a) glamorous life and starts to resent her husband Fox. He, is also struggling with withdrawal and looks at other areas to help with his addiction while trying to keep his family happy and healthy.

It was interesting but I found it slow and a bit repetitive at times.

Thanks to NetGalley, publishers and author for an ARC of A Serial Killers Guide to Marriage.

I really wanted to love this book more than I did. Ir had some great parts in it, but I found the monotonous dragging of the troubled marriage part a bit irritating. Several chapters of my wife isn't talking to me, my husband doesn't understand me brought the rating of this book to 3.5 stars.

I don’t think I need to convince you that this cover is awesome as is the premise of this book. Two married serial killers retiring from their chosen vocation and assuming a ‘regular’ life. What could possibly go wrong?

Hazel and Fox live a normal life with their young daughter Bibi and as far as anyone knows, they’re just a regular, middle class couple living in a Berkshire suburb. But Hazel finds it all terribly dull and she misses the excitement that life as a vigilante killer brought. Fox loves planning everything to the last detail and therefore adores fatherhood. He’s happy to have left his killing days behind but when police show up at the door, it becomes apparent that Hazel has some explaining to do.

Both Hazel and Fox come from toxic backgrounds. Hazel’s childhood was full of abandonment and loneliness while Fox’s family are horrendously controlling and overbearing. I really appreciated this depiction of different types of childhood abuse, as too often, that’s reduced to absent or physically violent parents. Exerting control and manipulation over kids is perhaps a much more common form of parental abuse and it has similar effects on the victims as they grow up.

Hazel is obsessed with Bibi and it was so lovely to see her enjoying motherhood. There were times where it seemed that Bibi was a barrier to Hazel doing what she loves but she never explicitly says that, so perhaps actually, being Bibi’s mum is what her heart desires. She’d just like to kill the odd bad man too!

Fox is totally obsessed with his wife and it hurts him that he can tell she isn’t satisfied with the life that they’ve built. I knew that killer instinct was still alive in him though and I also knew that he’d stand by Hazel no matter what she got herself into. There was a point in the narrative where I wasn’t sure what Fox was up to and I was trying to figure it out alongside Hazel. When it was finally revealed, I was a bit confused as I’m quite sure there were no hints that pointed towards it. Usually when an answer is unveiled in a thriller or domestic drama, there’s the sigh and you wonder why you didn’t see it. I’m not sure I could have ever seen what was actually going on in Fox’s life off the page!

To be honest, I was with Hazel when she wonders why this quiet, safe life doesn’t satisfy her. It actually made me like her more because at least, she is very self-aware. She knows she has a great life and her wanting more comes from a place of privilege and potentially addiction. Is Hazel addicted to ridding the world of bad men?

I’ve sometimes wondered about what happens after the last pages of the greatest love stories ever written. Is happily ever after really a thing for these couples? Obviously modern statistics suggest not but who knows for fictional characters? Anything is possible, I guess. I really enjoy thinking about the hypotheticals of fictional relationships and considering what outcome is the most likely. Hazel’s suggestion that perhaps dying before the passion fades is the key to a successful marriage is hilariously bleak!

A Serial Killer’s Guide To Marriage is a delivered in a highly engaging, snarky tone. You’ll almost certainly fully believe in Hazel and Fox as a power couple unlike any other. They are definitely made for each other and work fantastically well together. I would say that it’s definitely quite a character-driven book. There is a plot but I didn’t feel it was the focus really. I was getting to know them as people and the plot was simply there, chuntering along in the background, which is quite unusual for a thriller. Relatable serial killers are such fun perspectives to read from, so if you have any more recommendations that fit this brief, please let me know!

This was a really good book. Dark humour, murder, family life. What’s not to love. Haze tries to juggle a past as a serial killer with family life and marriage. A nice mix of real life experiences, and some rather far-fetched experiences too. All together, a pretty good book!

Really really enjoyed this story. Thank you for letting me review this and sorry for the late review. I really enjoyed the characters and the development of the story.