Darling Bud

oe oe oe Murder can be a family business ... oe oe oe Even wallflowers have to bloom. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is your average teenager. She''s annoyed by the scratchy labels on her school uniform, old men who wolf-whistle, and her mother the serial killer. But is murder in her roots? Ivy was raised far away from the shadows of Rhiannon Lewis, the Sweetpea killer, but when the local predator - better known as Ivy''s football coach - is found dead, could it be that she has discovered a taste for blood? As suspicion grows deeper, Ivy''s only way out is to get some motherly advice. But when the internet''s unlikeliest vigilantes determine that Ivy must be punished for her mother''s crimes, she must decide whether to control the rage burning inside her. Or whether to unleash her thorns... READERS LOVE C.J. SKUSE! ''Visceral, chilling and absolutely downright thrilling: I wish I had read it sooner!'' Reader review ''This darkly comic novel... has the potential to become a cult classic'' Daily Mail ''Wickedly funny'' Reader review ''Dark, depraved and devilishly delicious. A full throttle savage and satirical thriller'' John Marrs ''Brilliantly dark and twisted'' Reader review ''Hilarious, refreshing, dark and memorable. It doesn''t disappoint, I loved it'' Phoebe Morgan ...

About the author

C.J. SKUSE is the author of Pretty Bad Things, Rockaholic, Dead Romantic, Monster and The Deviants. She was born in Weston-super-Mare. She has first-class degrees in creative writing and, aside from writing novels, she is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Product details

• Authors: C J Skuse, C.J. Skuse
• Publisher: Harlequin (UK)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 25.05.2026
• EAN: 9780008819484
• ISBN: 978-0-00-881948-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic, Thriller / suspense, Ireland, Humorous fiction, Psychological thriller, Thriller: serial killers, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery