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Apr 5, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Sarah Jeng |Ron Corbett |Crime HQ |Alexia Casale
Crime Fiction Featuring Ride-or-Dies, Emphasis on the DieThere’s a reason we joke that a real friend is someone who’ll help you hide a body. We all need support, especially in our darkest hours (like when we’ve just strangled a violent husband or devoured the handsy high school football quarterback). But committing crimes together can cause tension, sometimes with fatal results. And often, the people we choose as friends aren’t healthy for us to begin with.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Janice Hallett |Anna Mazzola |Alexia Casale |Madeline Miller
Like many authors, I don’t write alongside a “day job” but rather a portfolio career. For over a decade a key strand of my work has focused on human rights non-fiction editing. During the U.K.’s covid lockdown, the femicide rate spiked even as my clients (frontline workers, activists and academics) struggled to get support for those in far more danger stuck at home with a violent partner than from the pandemic.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Alexia Casale
In the theatre, plays used to be divided into comedy and tragedy. Historically, however, comedies weren’t necessarily funny—instead, to quote Oscar Wilde, ‘The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means’. This definition of comedy has faded into the past, but it’s useful to return to when unpicking why comic fiction has come to be contrasted not with tragedy or drama, but with ‘serious’ works. This would be fine if by ‘serious’ we meant sincere, solemn or earnest.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
criminalelement.com | Alexia Casale |Lucinda Berry |Sophie Wan |Cara Hunter
…Makes the medicine go down, according to Mary Poppins in the classic 1964 Disney film. She’s got a literal and figurative point in relation to both life and fiction (though she can keep the pigeons). In life, we often lean into laughter when we want to cry but fear we won’t stop if we start—in fiction, so do our characters. When watching a movie about a difficult subject, who hasn’t felt the relief of a pithy one-liner that breaks the tension, even if just for a moment?
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Alexia Casale
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 19th from Penguin. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4bdmo1LWhen Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn’t be fair—not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn’t the only woman in town reaching the brink.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Tarryn Fisher |Alexia Casale
The book is in stores on Tuesday, March 19th. Click on the link to purchase. https://amzn.to/3R1ttJy Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped—so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister’s fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Alexia Casale
PERIL IN PINK by Sydney Leigh in stores on Tuesday, March 19th. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/49jnIOHIt’s the grand opening of The Pearl B&B in Hudson Valley, and owner Jess Byrne has prepared the ultimate, Insta-worthy welcome, complete with her ex-boyfriend—reality singing sensation Lars Armstrong—performing live. As guests check in and mimosas are poured, Lars arrives with his stepdad-turned-manager Bob in tow.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
foyles.co.uk | Alexia Casale
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
waterstones.com | Alexia Casale
'A darkly comedic story . . . I loved it' JESSE SUTANTO‘Poignant and funny, dark and searing’ ANDREA MARA'Perfect for those who like feminism with their dead bodies' JULIE COHEN'Tense, funny, moving and strangely cosy' HOLLY BOURNE---Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Sally never meant to cave her husband's head in with a skillet. Or at least she didn't until suddenly, she did. But Sally isn't the only woman in town being pushed to breaking point.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
whsmith.co.uk | Alexia Casale |Colleen Hoover |Richard Osman |Julia Donaldson
About the Author More Details 'A darkly comedic story . . . I loved it' JESSE SUTANTO'Poignant and funny, dark and searing' ANDREA MARA'Perfect for those who like feminism with their dead bodies' JULIE COHEN'Tense, funny, moving and strangely cosy' HOLLY BOURNE---Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . . Sally never meant to cave her husband's head in with a skillet. Or at least she didn't until suddenly, she did. But Sally isn't the only woman in town being pushed to breaking point.
