How To Kill Your Brother

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How far would you go to save your own life?

Elise Glyk is a disgraced athlete. Her blood brother, Callum, is a well-liked PE teacher. Both have been kidnapped, and are being held at a disused subcontract in the heart of nowhere.
Their captor hates Callum, and refuses to explain why. Merely she has picayune interest in Elise. So she makes an offering: she'll let Elise go—if Elise kills Callum. That manner, Elise tin't talk to the police force. Not without getting arrested for murder.

Years ago, when everyone turned against Elise, Callum was the just person who stood past her. But if Elise refuses the deal, they'll both die. With the clock ticking, Elise is forced to confront the option: would she impale her brother to save herself?

From the bestselling author of the Hangman series, Kill Your Brother is a dark, wild thriller that will keep you guessing to the very end.

Author Q&A

Why did you decide to write about an athlete?

I'm non sporty, simply I'k fascinated by aristocracy athletes. They're real-life superheroes, basically—running faster, jumping higher, throwing farther and lifting more than than mere mortals. Only their skills are never put to use. The world'southward fastest runners, for example, are consigned to running around in circles until they retire. I've always wondered how that might experience, to spend your whole life doing incredibly difficult training in guild to achieve basically zippo. Most athletes are not rewarded in any way, or at least non enough to justify what they put in.

I oftentimes faint at the sight of blood (readers of the Hangman series are typically surprised to hear this). When I start learned about blood doping—athletes withdrawing their ain blood and reinjecting it after—the idea made my peel crawl, but I was also fascinated by it. I constitute myself imagining an athlete who had been banned for blood doping and rejected by society, and who and so had a reversal of fortunes, being forced to run for her life while bleeding to death. The idea but wouldn't let me become.

Is this going to be equally gruesome as Hangman?

Look, at that place are enough of readers who love Hangman, only there are also plenty of people who find it too off-putting to read. This time around I intended to write something less night, something that would accept more mainstream appeal. But it turns out that fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Jack gotta write nightmarish criminal offence fiction. No-1 eats anyone else, though! So that's something.

Are you claustrophobic?

Very. I recently had to tape some dialogue for a podcast, sitting in a modest soundproof booth. There was no daylight, and no fresh air. The experience merely lasted an hour or then, just I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that if the door got locked somehow, no-one outside would hear me screaming. If the staff in the building forgot that I was there, I could be trapped over the weekend—like that guy in the lift in New York Urban center. Existence imprisoned underground in an empty septic tank is basically my worst nightmare, then I decided to bewitch my fears by writing near it.

Did that work?

No. I'm all the same claustrophobic, and afraid of blood.

Were there other stories that influenced you lot?

When I was younger, my favourite Australian film was Saw. In the movie, ii men are held captive. 1 homo is told his family will be murdered unless he kills the other man. Information technology's a great motion picture, but the two men are strangers to each other, and the evil mastermind is a stranger to both of them, with a purely philosophical motive. (I also liked Cube, A Behanding in Spokane, Phone Berth, Buried, and other stories in which a pocket-sized group of characters were trapped in an enclosed space with a ticking clock.) I wanted to write something like that, merely with layered characters who actually cared nearly each other, and whose motives were securely personal. I also wanted it to be prepare in Australia (Saw is full of false American accents) and to give the female and queer characters more of an active office.

How long have you been at work on this book?

I wrote the pitch and the first affiliate in 2016, but didn't have a publisher for it at the fourth dimension. (Hangman wouldn't come out for some other ii years.) I didn't write the rest until Audible bought the audio rights in early 2020.

Information technology'south mostly thanks to Chris Hammer that the book is set in Australia. If not for the success of Scrublands and other outback noir novels, I would have felt pressured to set the volume in the U.s.a., similar Hangman (probably Alaska).

Did you have to practise any special research?

I met with an Olympic hurdler to larn about the hole-and-corner world of aristocracy athletes, and with police and ambulance officers to make sure the other one-half of Elise's life was authentic, also.

Is Warrigal a existent place?

Warrigal, NSW, is a fictional town (though there is a Warragul in Victoria). Large parts of the volume were written and edited during a writing retreat in Braidwood so in that location are some similarities in the mural. I should stress that the people of Braidwood are much kinder than the citizenry of Warrigal. I saw no evidence that anyone was holding anyone else prisoner.

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