Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed—imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South. The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people, it's what she does for a living. And that's precisely what's bothering the Vatican.
A saintly hooker isn't exactly presentable. A martyred saint, on the other hand, has a conveniently rewritten past. That’s a job tailor-made for the Bronski twins—the best contract killers in the business. This is the book every UK thriller reader is talking about. A thriller laced with dark comedy, a road movie reminiscent of the Coen brothers, Tarantino and del Toro, but also a homage to the novels of Harry Crews. Stella is portrayed with compassion and grace. In many ways, this is a European writer's love letter to America.
Best New Thriller of the Month--Financial Times
" This freewheeling black comedy has a lot going for it, not least lapidary prose and a fizzy translation'--The Times
"Pulp Fiction vista of the bizarre, the deadly, the shrewd, and a variety of supposed purposes of life. Very much one to enjoy but also plenty to think about. —The Critic
"For me this is one of the best reads of 2026”--ELN Riveting Reviews
"This satirical thriller is funny, cheeky and bloody, but paradoxically, writing with compassion and hope, the author has created something bizarrely uplifting, a small masterpiece of positivity.”---Morning Star
Born in 1969, Joseph Incardona is a prolific novelist and writer of mixed Italian and Swiss origins. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He has written over fifteen novels across a range of genres and has also written for theatre and cinema. His work is both popular and critically acclaimed, having been honoured with numerous awards and adapted into film. Incardona’s work has been translated into German, Italian, Korean and Georgian, but none of his books has yet been translated into English.
Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than 70 books from French, including Laurent Binet’s HHhH and Leïla Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1970, Sam Taylor began his career as a journalist with The Observer. He now lives in Texarkana, TX.
