Eat, Slay, Love: A Novel

by Julie Mae Cohen

Overview

International bestselling author Julie Mae Cohen returns with a delicious new novel about three very different women and what unites them: the man they’re holding hostage

A friend will help you move on. A best friend will help you move his body...

Marina gave up her career as a chef to raise her children, but her divorce has left her harried, lonely, and the black sheep of her family. It’s also left her in dire financial straits.

Opal is a post-menopausal fitness guru who spends her days chasing likes and followers in an industry that worships youth. Even her glossy online persona can’t mask her checkered past.

Lilah is a shy and optimistic librarian who spends her days tending to the stacks, until she wins an unbelievable sum in the lottery. With a growing bank account and a dashing fiancé, life seems too good to be true—and it just might be.

These three women have nothing in common except for one thing: the man who’s been lying to them all . . . and who they are now holding hostage in Marina’s basement.

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?

Eat, Slay, Love is a raucous novel about friendship, finding joy, and becoming your best self, even if that sometimes involves kidnap and murder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419772351
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Julie Mae Cohen is a UK-bestselling author of book club and romantic fiction, including the award-winning novel Together. Her work has been translated into 17 languages. She is vice president of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in the UK. Julie grew up in western Maine and studied English at Brown University, Cambridge University, and the University of Reading, where she is now an associate lecturer in creative writing. She lives in Berkshire in the United Kingdom.

Editorial Reviews

[A] darkly funny thriller.”—RED MAGAZINE

"It's not often a book comes along that makes you howl with laughter one minute and wipe tears away the next, but Eat, Slay, Love really had that effect on me. It's so much more than just a murder story; it's the tale of friendships blossoming in the most unlikely places, of the sometimes painful, sometimes joyful experience of being human, of being a woman in a man's world and a reminder that no man, or woman, is an island. I loved it and will recommend it forever."—KATY BRENT, author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

From the Publisher

"It's not often a book comes along that makes you howl with laughter one minute and wipe tears away the next, but Eat, Slay, Love really had that effect on me. It's so much more than just a murder story; it's the tale of friendships blossoming in the most unlikely places, of the sometimes painful, sometimes joyful experience of being human, of being a woman in a man's world and a reminder that no man, or woman, is an island. I loved it and will recommend it forever."

author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It KATY BRENT

[A] darkly funny thriller.

RED MAGAZINE