Book Review: Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath
Another fast paced, dark but fun, read by Jack Heath.
Three couples go on a weekend away to a holiday house in the Australian bush with no internet or mobile phone service. After much alcohol, their party game progresses to one where the men randomly choose a bedroom to have sex with whichever woman is occupying that said bedroom. Afterwards, one of them is found dead. After the initial shock, the tension builds even more as they realise getting help from the authorities is not as simple as one would imagine, with the landline not working and the keys to the car missing.
The plot progresses in the present tense as well as flashbacks from each guest, showing just how they got into their current situation. The other narrators/main characters are the couple from Heath’s Kill Your Brother – paramedic ex-athlete Elise and police officer Kiara who, obviously, is the lead detective assigned to the case.
Heath was very clever in that he used the friends’ first names when writing from their point of view, and their last names when writing from Kiara and Elise’s, meaning the reader remained spoiler-free until almost the last chapter as to the six friends’ fate.
I think I always guessed who the killer was but I still had a fun time working out the finer details. And there were a couple of twists near the end I hadn’t picked up on at all.
It’s not necessary to read Kill Your Brother, events from that book are mentioned but are not really important to the plot of Kill Your Husbands. I would, of course, recommend you still read both – they’re both enjoyable. I’m looking forward to Heath killing some wives, or sisters perhaps, in the future.
4 ½ out of 5
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