REVIEW: How To Slay at Work by Sarah Bonner

Blurb:

When your boss is at a conference in a city where there's a suspicious death, it's unlucky.

If it happens twice, it's odd.

But when she's in the same city at the same time as a third unexplained death . . .

Could she be a stone-cold killer?

Millie's always known her boss Freya is a psycho – the demanding and ever-changing coffee orders, the cryptic instructions, the apparently expected mind reading and don't even start on the insistence that Millie wears heels . . . All. The. Time.

But it only extends as far as exacting office standards. Right?

As Freya's assistant, Millie has privileged access to her diary and travel history and when a pattern emerges of men (who seem to have no connection to each other) dying in cities where Freya is travelling, Millie is determined to figure out what's going on.

After all, a stone-cold killer could be exactly what Millie needs . . .

Review:

A brilliant bloody tale about how climbing the corporate ladder really can be Murder.

How To Slay at Work is like if someone turned the Devil Wears Prada into an amateur detective thriller — giving us opulence and luxury but never letting us enjoy it because of the sheer mounting stress and anxiety.

As for Millie, she was a riot. Her voice was absolutely perfect — she was so easy to read, her voice flowed like a conversation even when she was spiralling. It was a little jarring we first changed from Millie’s to Freya’s perspective as they take turns in each “part” rather than regular changes - but I loved it when we got her point of view, seeing two sides of the same mystery as they slowly got closer and closer, watching them try to figure each other out and everybody being a potential suspect, a risk.

We jet across the world on business trips, two women sitting right next to each other but somehow chasing each other at the same time. Each trip gives us more clues — is she a killer? And what’s the motivation? Most importantly, what do we do when Millie figures it out and every deliciously dark twist gets set in motion. It was a wild ride - compulsive, obsessive and absolutely electric, with a smooth finish that was almost anticlimactic but actually flowed perfectly.

A devilishly decadent revenge fantasy full of murder, mystery and misdirection.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review. How To Slay at Work is available now from Boldwood Books.

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