Triflers Need Not Apply

Triflers Need Not Apply

Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history’s original female serial killer find her next victim.

Summary

You've never met a woman as dangerous as Bella Sorensen . . .

THE FASCINATING REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY'S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER

'Extraordinary. Bruce does a marvellous job of reimagining this real-life murderer, without excusing her crimes' THE TIMES

'Dark, twisted and dangerously addictive' SAM LLOYD, bestselling author of THE MEMORY WOOD
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1900, Chicago.

Bella Sorenson knows that the world is made for men.

They control everything: jobs, property, money. Marriage makes women like her their slaves.

But now Bella is fighting back.


Because she's angry. She's bloodthirsty. She's willing to kill to get what she wants - starting with her husband.

And then her next husband. And the next one . . .
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'Explosive . . . If you like true crime, you'll devour this chilling story of revenge' WOMAN'S WEEKLY

'Dark glee, tragedy . . . Fans of my story The Corset will gobble this up' LAURA PURCELL

'Come for the fabulous premise, stay for the razor-sharp portrait of a marvelously complex (and often totally terrifying) mind . . . Camilla Bruce has absolutely outdone herself' LAIRD HUNT

'Starts as a revenge story but quickly becomes so much more. Clever, shocking and horrific in places, it's the sort of book for which the phrase 'page-turner' was invented' LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY

Reviews

  • Got me out of a reading slump! Dark glee, tragedy . . . fans of my story The Corset will gobble this up
    Laura Purcell

About the author

Camilla Bruce

CAMILLA BRUCE was born in central Norway and grew up in an old forest, next to an Iron Age burial mound. She has a master's degree in comparative literature from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology and currently lives in Trondheim with her son and cat. Triflers Need Not Apply was her first foray into historical fiction; she has also published two highly acclaimed speculative novels: You Let Me In and The Witch in the Well.
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