Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll is a careful writer, and this, her third novel, is a perfect match for her cold dissection of social mores and her fierce rage at misogyny. Knoll takes on the story of Ted Bundy, told from the perspective of a student who survives a horrific attack on a sorority house . . . Some may claim that the crime genre is rift with misogyny; those people have not read Jessica Knoll. She tears apart the restrictive world of women’s roles and lays bare the purpose of such hobbles: to keep women from making a scene, to keep them from seeking justice, and most of all, to keep them from seeking their own lives.CrimeReads/LitHub, Most Anticipated Books of 2023

Disturbing but thought-provoking in its exploration of society’s obsession with serial killers, it puts a contemporary spin on the page-turning genre.The Independent

Bright Young Women is a fearless and intoxicating ride into the aftershocks of a series of brutal murders. Knoll explores in vivid, pointillist prose the effects on the ‘bright young women’ of the title, both the victims snuffed out in their glorious prime, and those left behind in their wake. It's a compelling, almost hypnotic read and I loved it with a passion.Lisa Jewell, Bestselling author of None of This is True

A sharp examination of our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime.Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of the Year