She's A Killer

Kirsten McDougall is a novelist, short story writer and works for a union. Her 2017 work Tess was longlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards and shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award. She’s a Killer was longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award and Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

'A gem . . . there is a surprise on every page, as Alice's behavior is never routine, and Simp is a wild card. Not quite a misanthrope, not quite a sociopath, Alice is compelling, hilarious, and dangerous all at once' Booklist (Starred Review)



'Savagely funny . . . An outrageous, comic, disturbingly timely novel' The Guardian




'A wild ride . . . made me think about similarities between NZ and Ireland as we face climate change, housing crises and the righteous anger of the young' Sarah Moss, Best Books of 2023, Irish Times



'Funny, thought-provoking, bold and unusual . . . McDougall's humour, pointed social observations and shocking plot twists combine with moving insights on self-knowledge, family and friendship' The Independent




'Satirical thrills' New Scientist, Best New Science Fiction Books of October




'Darkly funny, scarily prescient' Red Magazine, 10 Best Books of October




'Alarmingly prescient . . . tightly-written . . . [She's a Killer] comes into its own as the pace of the action increases, and makes for a propelling finale' The Telegraph



'Smart, assured, and extremely funny, She's A Killer is a marvellously eccentric book that both skews and skewers the anxieties of our age . . . This is satire at its best' Eleanor Catton, Booker Prize Winner, author of Birnam Wood




'A fabulously dark pleasure, delivered in prose of singing tautness' Luke Jennings, author of Killing Eve




'McDougall's dystopian future is no distant vision: it's disturbingly familiar, urgently relevant. Narrator Alice is a brilliant creation - complex, prickly, often hilarious - and I was utterly in her thrall as she swept me along to the book's astonishing finale. Unputdownable'