China, she returned to London, where she worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their round-the-world motorbike documentaries. She started writing her debut novel, Killing It, on maternity leave—it was the runner-up in Richard and Judy's Search for a Bestseller competition and runner-up and exceptionally recognized for the Comedy Women In Print Prize.
Mackay's latest novel is Self-Help for Serial Killers.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five "excellent books [that] focus on what happens when the wellness world and the criminal world collide." One title on the list:
Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect StrangersRead about another entry on the list.
Masha is the enigmatic leader of Tranquillum House, a luxury wellness resort. Nine city-dwelling strangers arrive at Tanquillum to de-stress, sweat out their inner demons and realign their chakras. But Masha is a wellness guru who doesn’t just practice mindfulness, she weaponizes it.
Using the core pillars of a wellness retreat—confiscating phones, restricting food, and mandating silence—she manipulates them into compliance, turning a practice meant for inner peace into a tool for total psychological dominance. The strangers might have come there to find ‘better versions of themselves’ but now they must fight to leave the way they came—alive.
Nine Perfect Strangers is among Benjamin Percy's five titles about dangerous plants and Sherri Smith's six thrillers that feature toxic perfectionism.
--Marshal Zeringue
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