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Bad Girls & Nasty Women fiction featuring ladies we love to loathe |
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by Megan E. Abbott
Cheerleaders. The pinnacle of cool and cruel in high school. These Mean Girls find their perch gets unsteady with the arrival of a new coach. |
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by Margaret Atwood
After Zenia's funeral, three old friends agree that they aren't really sad that their man-eating "frenemy" is dead. But then they spot Zenia - apparently still alive and up to her old tricks. |
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by Dorothy Baker
Determined to sabotage her identical twin's wedding, Cassandra starts by dressing just like the bride. |
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by Chelsea Cain
Detective Archie Sheridan was tortured by a serial killer who let him go, and then turned herself in. Now another serial killer is targeting young girls, and Archie needs the help of his torturer need to stop the murders. |
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by Emma Cline
Evie is mesmerized by a carefree group of girls who seem to have it all together. As she is allowed into their world, she realizes they are in thrall to a cult leader. |
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by Elisabeth Cohen
Shelley Stone, a Silicon Valley executive, meets a young woman named Shelley Stone while on vacation. Is she a con artist? A visitor from the past? Or is Shelley cracking up? |
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by Henry Farrell
Sisters. Best of friends. Worst enemies. Jane terrorized her sister Blanche when she was the famous "Baby Jane". Now the tables have turned. |
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by Neil Gaiman
When her family moves into a new flat, Coraline finds a door that opens to a brick wall. Then one day it opens to another flat, just like hers - only better! In this flat, "the Other Mother" is in charge. |
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by Lauren Groff
Looking back on their long marriage, Lotto sings the praises of his wife, Mathilde. But when it's her turn to deconstruct their marriage, she has a different story to tell. |
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by Susan Hill
A routine trip to settle his late client's estate takes a terrifying turn for solicitor Arthur Kipps. The isolated home appears to be haunted, and a ghostly woman in black is a particularly menacing presence. |
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by L. S. Hilton
Judith Rashleigh supplements her meager art house paycheck as a call girl catering to clients with "exotic" tastes. Her day job and side hustle collide in a calamitous mess of sex, drugs, stolen art, and ... murder. |
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Frances Fitzgibbons, a sedate, widowed loan officer - has always colored inside the lines. Then she turns forty five, and all hell breaks loose.
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by Ken Kesey
Randall McMurphy, Chief Broom and the other mental hospital residents under the care of Nurse Ratched are in a world of hurt. |
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by Sara Levine Robert Louis Stevenson's hero evinced the core values of: boldness, resolution, independence and ... horn blowing. A timid, going-nowhere college grad decides to live her life the way Jim Hawkins lived his on Treasure Island. |
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by Ottessa Moshfegh
Eileen hates her life, and dreams of the big city. When a new woman arrives at her dreary job, it may be the incentive she needs to make the change. Or it may be more than she bargained for. |
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by Sarah Schmidt
What might have happened that sweltering August day in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts when Lizzie Borden took an ax ... |
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by Helene Tursten
When women become a certain age, they become ... invisible. 88 year old Maud prefers to be seen as a helpless, frail little old lady. She can get away with so much more that way. |
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by Lauren Weisberger
Andrea gets her dream job right out of college working for a glamorous fashion magazine. Then she discovers that Amanda Priestly is the boss from Hell. |
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by Jean Zimmerman
Allegedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada and adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple that wants to civilize her, 18-year-old Bronwyn explosively enters high society and is implicated in the deaths of several suitors. |
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