One of the Financial Times's top summer books for 2015

One of the Telegraph's Best Crime Fiction Books for 2015

'An ironclad guarantee of sleepless nights' INDEPENDENT

'One of the most arresting thrillers I've read for years' LISA GARDNER

'Fast, edgy and gripping...full of quirks, with a conflicted heroine as killer at its heart. Do not miss it.' GEOFFREY WANSELL, DAILY MAIL

'Aichner has a talent for keeping readers hooked - this is a gripping read and the character of Blum lives long in the mind' TELEGRAPH

'An inventive, forceful, engrossing revenge thriller' MARCEL BERLINS, TIMES

'Blum is a great character and when Aichner's ghost-train plot ends in the only place it can - a crematorium - you feel like cheering' GUARDIAN


How far would you go to avenge the one you love?

Blum has a secret buried deep in her past.

She thought she'd left the past behind.

But then Mark, the man she loves, dies.

His death looks like a hit-and-run. It isn't a hit-and-run. Mark has been killed by the men he was investigating.
And then, suddenly, Blum rediscovers what she's capable of...

KILL BILL meets DEXTER via THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, WOMAN OF THE DEAD is a wild ride of a thriller where the first stage of grief is revenge. And revenge is a dish best served bloody.

Translated by: Anthea Bell