C.J. Skuse
British author of young adult and adult crime fiction, best known for the Sweetpea series and YA novels such as Pretty Bad Things, Rockoholic, Dead Romantic, and Monster.
Books
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1. Dead Head
A sharp-tongued, list-making antiheroine finds her carefully controlled double life imploding when her crimes edge into the spotlight, forcing her to go on the run with a newborn and a trail of enemies in her wake. As police, exes, and true-crime obsessives close in, she embarks on a darkly comic, blood-splattered road trip across Britain and beyond, juggling maternal instincts with murderous impulses while deciding who deserves mercy—and who absolutely doesn’t.
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3. In Bloom
A darkly comic thriller about a sharp-tongued, list-making female serial killer trying to keep her life—and secrets—under control as the fallout from recent murders closes in. Juggling an unexpected pregnancy, nosy neighbors, suspicious police, and complicated relationships, she leans into her ruthless instincts with biting wit, deciding who deserves a place on her ever-evolving kill list to protect the future she wants.
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4. Sweetpea
Told in confessional, diary-like entries, it follows a seemingly ordinary young woman who hides a murderous streak and keeps a personal kill list of people she believes deserve punishment. As she navigates a dreary job, toxic relationships, and the fallout of past trauma, her darkly comic inner voice charts a slide into vigilantism that blurs the line between revenge and survival.
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5. The Bad Seeds
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