JULIE MAE COHEN
Julie Mae Cohen is the darker, funnier side of author Julie Cohen. Julie grew up in Maine and studied English at Brown University, Cambridge University and the University of Reading. Her award-winning novels have sold over a million copies worldwide, and she has twice been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in the UK. Her first thriller, BAD MEN, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.
Julie is a popular speaker and teacher of creative writing; she has given workshops internationally and has been an Associate Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Reading. She is a Patron of literacy charity ABC To Read and served as Vice President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. In 2020 she won the RNA Inclusion Award for her work founding a chapter for writers of LGBTQ+ romantic fiction. She is currently pursuing a PhD by Publication in Creative Writing and Publishing. She lives in Berkshire, UK with a terrier of dubious origin.
For more information visit www.juliemaecohen.com and she is on Twitter as @julie_cohen.
Latest Book: BODY COUNT (Bonnier Zaffre, 2025)
Murder is cheaper than couples therapy…
Serial killer Saffy Huntley-Oliver’s life is going great.
She's got a fabulous new boyfriend, Jonathan. She has literally got away with murder. And now that she’s no longer single, she can get back to her favourite hobby: killing bad men.
Particularly Sir Thomas West, a children’s TV star who truly deserves to die.
But there are a few little snags. For one, her beloved sister Susie is still dating that insufferable Finlay. For another, Sir Thomas has a very large bodyguard. And Jonathan himself has given up his job investigating true crime, despite all the tempting corpses that Saffy keeps putting in his way.
All of this would be easy to ignore in the flush of new love. Except Saffy’s never been in love before, and it’s weird. She’s having difficulty separating romance from homicide. Especially when someone discovers Saffy’s secret hobby and starts sending Jonathan coded messages about her crimes.
Is someone trying to break them up? Or trying to hunt her down?
EAT, SLAY, LOVE (Bonnier Zaffre, 2024)
A good friend will help you move on.
A best friend will help you move the body . . .
Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers.
Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian.
Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru.
These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who’s been lying to all of them. Now that he’s tied up in a basement, they may just have something to bond over.
But how far is each willing to go to get revenge? As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlier problems come crashing into their lives. Can they put their differences aside to save themselves - and each other?
BAD MEN published in hardback, ebook and audio July 2023 (Bonnier, 2023)
Saffy Huntley-Oliver is beautiful, charming, rich, and in her spare time she’s a serial killer.
For the past fifteen years she’s been hunting down and killing bad men: rapists, murderers,
domestic abusers. As a hobby, it’s not as Instagrammable as baking, but at least it’s better for
your thighs. The problem is, that it’s hard to sustain a healthy, balanced heterosexual
relationship when you’re expecting to have to kill your boyfriend at any moment. She’s lost
her faith in mankind.
That's why she’s decided to look for a good man instead, preferably one who shares her
interests. Jon Desrosiers, with his campaigning podcast, perfect bone structure and adorably
messy hair, could be just the guy for her. As the creator of a hugely popular true-crime
podcast, he has to delve deep into the psyches of monsters, though he’s always been on the
side of justice.
So begins a tale of obsession as Saffy uses every trick in the book to get her man. Regardless
of the cost to human life...
