Sunday, June 22, 2025

Body Count by Julie Mae Cohen

I loved 'Bad Men', and now Saffy is back, and so is Jonathan, and the dog (who is slowly chewing up Saffy's very expensive shoe collection...), Saffy's sister, and a whole bunch of dead bad men!

This time around I feel like we see a bit of a softer side to Saffy.  She's still hard as nails, but we also get to see her taking care of her sister, and going for therapy.  We learn more about Jonathan too, and see him in the aftermath of his near death experience last time, navigating what happens to his career now and if he really wants to continue his investigations into murderers.  Can Saffy maintain any semblance of a normal relationship at the same time as continuing her vigilante exploits?  Well, no spoilers from me, you'll have to read it yourself, but I flew through the last half of the book wanting to find out what would happen.

I enjoyed all the different little side characters, my favourite being Jon's imprisoned serial killer friend.  But there are lots of laughs through the whole book, and some satisfyingly grotesque endings for some truly horrible characters.

Looking forward to the next one already!


With thanks to Net Galley & the publishers for my copy.


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