17 languages. She is vice president of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in the UK. Cohen grew up in western Maine and studied English at Brown University, Cambridge University, and the University of Reading, where she is now an associate lecturer in creative writing. She lives in Berkshire in the United Kingdom.
Cohen's new novel is Bad Men, her first thriller.
[The Page 69 Test: Bad Men; Q&A with Julie Mae Cohen]
At CrimeReads Cohen tagged six top female killer books, including:
Wahala by Nikki MayRead about another entry on the list.
In Nigeria, ‘Wahala’ means ‘trouble’, and that’s what friends Ronke, Boo and Simi get when they welcome glamorous and rich Isobel into their group. Issues about friendship and culture take the star places in this novel but there’s murder, too, all set in the Anglo-Nigerian community of London. Unlike the killer protagonists of the other novels on this list, Ronke is totally sympathetic—a food-loving dentist on the lookout for love—and the violence in the book is an expression of the toxic unspoken jealousy that can simmer beneath some female friendships.
Wahala is among Justine Sullivan's ten novels with heroines who are hot messes.
--Marshal Zeringue
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