Audiobook Review: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage
Author: Asia MacKay
Narrators:
Georgia Tennant
Kyle Soller
Published: January 14, 2025
Audiobook: 9 hours 47 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: June 17-24, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
I wasn’t smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Meanwhile, Fox has really taken to being a father. Always the planner, he loves being five steps ahead of everyone and knowing exactly what’s coming around the bend. Plus, if anyone can understand Hazel needing one more kill, it’s Fox. But then Hazel kills someone without telling Fox. And when police show up at their door, Hazel realizes it will take everything she has to keep her family together.
Jessica’s Review:
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage was a fun and quick read. We have a married couple who are serial killers. They kill ‘bad men’ until… an unexpected pregnancy. And now Hazel and Fox are trying to adjust to ‘normal’ life: IE not being killers. But killing is what brings and keeps Hazel and Fox together. Can they survive ‘normal’ life?
We have both Hazel and Fox’s point of views in the past and present. I liked Hazel, but felt that we never really got to know Fox very well. The past does come into play with the present.
Trying to have a ‘normal’ life Hazel is part of parenting groups and makes friends with… a police officer on maternity leave and also under investigation. During this, Hazel can’t help herself and kills again… But this time solo… And the story moves on…
Both narrators did a good job with their narrations. Guide to Marriage is entertaining and has some dark humor to it. And I really just enjoyed the ending! This novel would make a good mini-series that I would definitely watch.