Kill Your Husbands

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect for fans of Benjamin Stevenson.

Three couples, friends since the university athletics team, travel to a house in the mountains for an unplugged weekend of drinking and bushwalking. No internet, no phones, no stress. On the first night, the topic of partner-swapping comes up. It's a joke - at first.

Not everyone is keen, but an agreement is made. The lights will be turned out. The three men will go into the three bedrooms. The three women will each pick a bedroom at random. It won't be awkward later, because no one will know for sure who they've slept with - though each guest is privately sure that they alone will be able to tell.

But when the lights come back on, someone is missing. A search of the house and the surrounding bushland turns up a body.

Five people remain. They have no way of contacting the police. Nor can they leave - the key to the car is missing. And the killer is just getting started.

Two weeks later, Senior Constable Kiara Lui drives to the house with her girlfriend, Elise. She's already interviewed the survivors. Now, she must work out which of them is lying, and why ...

About the Author

Jack Heath is the pen name of a multi-award-winning Australian author. His mission is to create books that inspire a love of reading in children and adults.

Born in Melbourne in 1985, Jack started writing his first novel in Canberra, while studying at Lyneham High School and working at a fish and chip shop in Dickson. He submitted the manuscript to a publisher at age seventeen, and the book became his first international bestseller.

In 2009 Jack was named the ACT Young Australian of the Year. He took various other jobs bass guitar tutor, e-commerce call centre worker, TV salesperson, ghostwriter and bookseller before quitting to write full-time in 2017.

His forty books have sold half a million copies in nine languages. His first crime thriller, Hangman, was voted one of the 100 best books of all time (twice).

Jack lives with his wife and their children in Gungahlin, on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land.