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📃 381 pages
⏱ Duration: 5 hours
🏷️ Publisher: One More Chapter
📅 Published: May 8, 2025
Book Blurb:
When Jess Pendle joins a support group for women with shared trauma, she expects gentle conversation and lukewarm tea. What she doesn’t expect is what happens when their therapist steps out. Behind closed blinds, this circle of survivors transforms into something far darker—and deadlier. Justice, they decide, shouldn’t wait for the system. They’ll take matters into their own hands. This psychological thriller asks: what happens when the abused become the hunters? And how far would you go for revenge?
Let’s talk … murder!!!
Okay, what did I just read? Because The Serial Killer Support Group went from zero to absolutely feral in about three chapters, and I am still processing.
The premise alone is chef’s kiss: a support group for domestic violence survivors who collectively decide that therapy isn’t cutting it and vigilante justice sounds way more satisfying. The writing is gorgeous, sharp and brutal in all the right places, and the pacing is relentless. Just when I thought I had the story figured out, Stephens dropped a twist that made me audibly gasp. And then did it again. The mid-book reveal that usually shows up at the end, hit like a freight train, and I had to put my Kindle down to breathe.
But real talk: this book comes with a massive trigger warning for intense, graphic domestic violence. Stephens doesn’t shy away from the ugliness, and while that rawness makes the emotional payoff hit harder, it’s also a lot. If you’re in the right headspace for it, though, this is a wild, cathartic, darkly satisfying ride that I could not put down.
Would I recommend it?
If you love psychological thrillers with morally gray characters, revenge plots that make you question everything, and twists that actually earn their keep, then add this to your TBR immediately. Just make sure you’re ready for the emotional gut-punch that comes with it. This isn’t a cozy mystery with baked goods. This is a knife to the chest, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
If You Loved This, Read Next:
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Goodreads | StoryGraph | Pagebound | Fable | Hardcover | OpenLibrary | Litsy - Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land — Dark, morally complex, and absolutely gripping—perfect if you loved the psychological depth here.
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Goodreads | StoryGraph | Pagebound | Fable | Hardcover | OpenLibrary | Litsy - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides — If you’re craving another thriller with a twist that’ll leave you reeling, this is it.
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Ready to Join the Group?
Have you read The Serial Killer Support Group? Did that mid-book twist wreck you too? And more importantly, Team Vigilante Justice or nah? Let’s talk in the comments.
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