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#CBR12 Review #06: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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My Sister, the Serial Killer begins at the cleanup of a murder; Korede is the older sister of Ayoola, and this is the third time Korede has had to come to the rescue of her little sister’s crimes in order to help her clean up and dispose of a dead body. Korede has always been protective of her little sister after a traumatic childhood with their father, but at this point she is beginning to question if the trail of bodies Ayoola has been leaving behind were really in self-defence or not. Being that she is implicated in the cover-up of these crimes, Korede keeps quiet, but when Ayoola strikes the interest of a doctor that Korede works with and has feelings for, their dynamic gets thrown for a new loop. This book is short and sweet: it contains a darkly humorous and intriguing story that doesn’t give us a murder mystery to solve (we know Ayoola has killed the man at the beginning) so much as a playout of what comes after, holding the reader in suspense as to what decisions will b...