Darling Bud

Darling Bud by C.J. Skuse is a Thriller release out on June 4, 2026.

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Darling Bud Release Date: June 4, 2026

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Murder can be a family business …

Even wallflowers have to bloom.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy is your average teenager. She’s annoyed by the scratchy labels on her school uniform, old men who wolf-whistle, and her mother the serial killer.

But is murder in her roots?

Ivy was raised far away from the shadows of Rhiannon Lewis, the Sweetpea killer, but when the local predator – better known as Ivy’s football coach – is found dead, could it be that she has discovered a taste for blood?

As suspicion grows deeper, Ivy’s only way out is to get some motherly advice. But when the internet’s unlikeliest vigilantes determine that Ivy must be punished for her mother’s crimes, she must decide whether to control the rage burning inside her.

Or to unleash her thorns…

READERS LOVE C.J. SKUSE!‘This darkly comic novel… has the potential to become a cult classic’
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‘Dark, depraved and devilishly delicious. A full throttle savage and satirical thriller’ John Marrs

‘Hilarious, refreshing, dark and memorable. It doesn’t disappoint, I loved it’ Phoebe Morgan

‘Visceral, chilling and absolutely downright I wish I had read it sooner!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Wickedly funny’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Brilliantly dark and twisted’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Think Bridget Jones but really really angry, readable and deeply dark and funny’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A deliciously dark and twisted read that had me well and truly gripped’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Bridget Jones meets Dexter! Brilliant, original and unputdownable!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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