Notes on an Execution: The bestselling thriller that everyone is talking about - Softcover

Kukafka, Danya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474625975 ISBN 13: 9781474625975

Publisher: Phoenix, 2023

Synopsis

'THRILLING' Paula Hawkins
'COMPULSIVE' The Times
'SEARING' Brit Bennett
'DEVASTATING' Observer
'UNFORGETTABLE' Ashley Audrain
'BRILLIANT' Chris Whitaker

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. But this is not his story.

Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Yet now he awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago.

This is the story of the women who survive.

As the clock ticks down, three women - a mother, a sister, a detective - reckon with the choices that culminate in tragedy, the impact on those in its wake, and the possibility of redemption.

WINNER OF THE MWA EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2023

About this title

About the Author

Danya Kukafka is the internationally bestselling author of Girl in Snow. She is a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She works as a literary agent.

From the Back Cover

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. He hoped it wouldn't end like this, not for him.

Through a kaleidoscope of women, we learn the story of Ansel's life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. We meet Hazel, twin sister to Ansel's wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister's relationship threatens to devour them all. And finally, Saffy, the homicide detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down to Ansel's execution, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake.

Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating the justice system and our cultural obsession with crime stories and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474625975
• ISBN 13: 9781474625975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320