Emma Styles
A dark and voice-led serial killer thriller from Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize-winner Emma Styles.
A SERIAL KILLER STALKING THE SHORELINE.
TWO GIRLS IN OVER THEIR HEADS.
Every monster has a weakness.
About the book
Every monster has a weakness.
A killer is stalking a prosperous beachside suburb in Western Australia. Two teenage girls hell-bent on revenge take matters into their own hands, with deadly results.
Follow-up to her award-winning debut, No Country for Girls, THE SHARK is an unforgettably propulsive novel about victimhood, power and autonomy.
Uniquely Australian and packed with atmosphere, this is riveting reading
SAM HOLLAND, author of THE COUNTDOWN KILLER
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian noir about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London.
Into the dark
How Emma set out to write a serial killer story that isn’t centred on the perpetrator, but instead those affected by their crimes.
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian noir about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London.
Into the dark
More about the serial killer plot, and instead of why this book was so hard to write: I set myself the challenge of writing a serial killer story without centring the perpetrator but instead those affected by their crimes.
Also by emma
Winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, No Country for Girls is a gritty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run along 2000 kilometres of remote highway in Western Australia.
Described as ‘a story of young, female empowerment and resilience’, No Country for Girls was a Val McDermid New Blood pick at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger, the Ned Kelly Award for best debut and two Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
Acknowledgement of country
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands, waters and skies where this story is set, and where I live and work when in Australia, and I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.