Devi Nair
Serial Killer Wanted
📱📖 Read on Kindle 📃 320 pages ⏱ 4 hours 🏷️ Crooked Lane Books | Publishing October 27, 2026 ARC provided via NetGalley
I went in for the “Dexter meets Killing Eve” pitch and the promise of a morally messy, sapphic cat-and-mouse. And to be fair, the central dynamic delivers: Dani and Jeika fit together in a way that’s both unsettling and oddly tender. One needs to kill, the other wants to die, and somewhere in those late-night emails, the book finds its emotional hook. That push-pull between purpose and connection is the strongest thread here, and it kept me turning pages even when I wasn’t fully convinced.
Where it wobbled for me was the added chaos agent. The extra psycho, clearly there to spike the suspense, felt more like a narrative shortcut than an organic escalation. Instead of deepening the tension, it diluted the intimacy of Dani and Jeika’s story, which is where the book actually shines. I found myself speed-reading the back half, less because I was breathless and more because I wanted to get to the end of their arc. The voice is sharp, the concept is sticky, but the execution leans a bit too hard on external danger when the internal stakes were already doing the heavy lifting.
Would I Recommend It? If you're here for the sapphic dark romance energy and the delicious weirdness of two morally complicated women falling for each other in the most chaotic circumstances imaginable, there's something here for you. The premise is genuinely clever and the central relationship lands. It just gets cluttered with a thriller element that competes with its own best instincts.
📱📖 Read on Kindle 📃 320 pages ⏱ 4 hours 🏷️ Crooked Lane Books | Publishing October 27, 2026 ARC provided via NetGalley
I went in for the “Dexter meets Killing Eve” pitch and the promise of a morally messy, sapphic cat-and-mouse. And to be fair, the central dynamic delivers: Dani and Jeika fit together in a way that’s both unsettling and oddly tender. One needs to kill, the other wants to die, and somewhere in those late-night emails, the book finds its emotional hook. That push-pull between purpose and connection is the strongest thread here, and it kept me turning pages even when I wasn’t fully convinced.
Where it wobbled for me was the added chaos agent. The extra psycho, clearly there to spike the suspense, felt more like a narrative shortcut than an organic escalation. Instead of deepening the tension, it diluted the intimacy of Dani and Jeika’s story, which is where the book actually shines. I found myself speed-reading the back half, less because I was breathless and more because I wanted to get to the end of their arc. The voice is sharp, the concept is sticky, but the execution leans a bit too hard on external danger when the internal stakes were already doing the heavy lifting.
Would I Recommend It? If you're here for the sapphic dark romance energy and the delicious weirdness of two morally complicated women falling for each other in the most chaotic circumstances imaginable, there's something here for you. The premise is genuinely clever and the central relationship lands. It just gets cluttered with a thriller element that competes with its own best instincts.