Death in Her Hands

'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery'
The Times

'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today'
Guardian

'A new kind of murder mystery'
New Yorker

'Dark, devious'
Observer

'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd'
New Statesman

'A brilliant off-kilter detective story'
Evening Standard

'A beautiful novel'
Sunday Times

Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands is a new kind of murder mystery... A haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art... Death in Her Hands is the work of writer who is, like Henry James or Vladimir Nabokov, touched by both genius and cruelty. Cruelty, so deplorable in life, is for novelists a seriously underrated virtue. Like a surgeon, or a serial killer, Moshfegh flenses her characters, and her readers, until all that's left is a void. It's the amused contemplation of that void that gives rise to the dark exhilaration of her work-its wayward beauty, its comedy, and its horror.
Kevin Power New Yorker

Death in her Hands is a return to the dark humour that marks Moshfegh's work to date, making it sure to hit the sweet spot with established fans.
Hunger TV Books of 2020

An eerie, affecting book.
Psychologies

A darkly funny tale.
Sarah Hughes i, Summer Reads 2020

Moshfegh returns to the violent timbre of her debut Eileen.
Daily Telegraph