The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.
Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.
When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is floored—she's never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good…
Genre: Horror
Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.
When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is floored—she's never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good…
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"Guillotine is a tight thrill ride of horror you can't put down." - V Castro
"Sometimes the line dividing the Haves from the Have-Nots is as thin as a razorblade or blunt as a sledgehammer, but in Delilah S. Dawson's cruelly capable hands, rest assured, it's gonna hurt no matter what. Her taut novella testifies revenge is a dish best served flambeed, or sous vide, or pounded into an absolute pulp. In Guillotine, you gleefully get all three... and then some." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"Reading Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine is like watching poetry smash a bottle against someone's face. Fast, stylish, very bloody, and unapologetically brutal, this is a straight razor of a novel that slices to the core of class resentment with power and grace. This novel will leave a slug trail of blood in your brain, and you'll be happy it did." - Gabino Iglesias
"Fast, fun, and frightening, Glass Onion meets Saw in this savagely on-point thriller." - T Kingfisher
"Gruesome and laced with a delightful sense of humor, Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine showcases the author's brilliant nerve and clever wit. A compelling and intelligently written shocker." - Eric LaRocca
"If there's a better writer than Delilah Dawson going today, I don't know'em." - Josh Malerman
"Guillotine is at once a vicious reckoning of wealth and power, and a feminist fever dream led by a protagonist you can't help but salivate over. I would follow Dez Lane straight into Hell." - Katrina Monroe
"Deliciously brutal and stiletto sharp. Guillotine is the eat-the-rich horror you've been waiting for." - Rory Power
"Murderously cathartic - or perhaps cathartically murderous? - Guillotine continues to prove that Delilah S. Dawson is a must-read when it comes to sinister, twisted tales. Elegantly constructed, ticks along with thrilling tension, won't you come take a trip to the island? (Also serves as an interesting companion piece to Bloom, but you didn't hear it from me.)" - Chuck Wendig
"A pitch-dark, sharp-toothed romp with a rich vein of gallows humour, Guillotine is a gory, uncomfortable treat for anyone who's ever wanted to eat the rich. Blending the glittering world of The Menu with the disturbing underclass of US, Delilah S. Dawson's latest novel is another triumph." - Ally Wilkes
"Sometimes the line dividing the Haves from the Have-Nots is as thin as a razorblade or blunt as a sledgehammer, but in Delilah S. Dawson's cruelly capable hands, rest assured, it's gonna hurt no matter what. Her taut novella testifies revenge is a dish best served flambeed, or sous vide, or pounded into an absolute pulp. In Guillotine, you gleefully get all three... and then some." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"Reading Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine is like watching poetry smash a bottle against someone's face. Fast, stylish, very bloody, and unapologetically brutal, this is a straight razor of a novel that slices to the core of class resentment with power and grace. This novel will leave a slug trail of blood in your brain, and you'll be happy it did." - Gabino Iglesias
"Fast, fun, and frightening, Glass Onion meets Saw in this savagely on-point thriller." - T Kingfisher
"Gruesome and laced with a delightful sense of humor, Delilah S. Dawson's Guillotine showcases the author's brilliant nerve and clever wit. A compelling and intelligently written shocker." - Eric LaRocca
"If there's a better writer than Delilah Dawson going today, I don't know'em." - Josh Malerman
"Guillotine is at once a vicious reckoning of wealth and power, and a feminist fever dream led by a protagonist you can't help but salivate over. I would follow Dez Lane straight into Hell." - Katrina Monroe
"Deliciously brutal and stiletto sharp. Guillotine is the eat-the-rich horror you've been waiting for." - Rory Power
"Murderously cathartic - or perhaps cathartically murderous? - Guillotine continues to prove that Delilah S. Dawson is a must-read when it comes to sinister, twisted tales. Elegantly constructed, ticks along with thrilling tension, won't you come take a trip to the island? (Also serves as an interesting companion piece to Bloom, but you didn't hear it from me.)" - Chuck Wendig
"A pitch-dark, sharp-toothed romp with a rich vein of gallows humour, Guillotine is a gory, uncomfortable treat for anyone who's ever wanted to eat the rich. Blending the glittering world of The Menu with the disturbing underclass of US, Delilah S. Dawson's latest novel is another triumph." - Ally Wilkes
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