Recommended by New York Times Book Review Compassionate and thought-provoking." –BRIT BENNETT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half "A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” -Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice) beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity. NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR.WINNER OF THE 2023 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL.As soon as I finished, I texted friends the authors note and a simple ADD TO YOUR TBR STAT. I raced through it, driven to find out what the next layer to the story would be. The writing was wonderful, I appreciated her ability to set a scene or evoke a sensation economically. The ones who deserve to be known and who so very rarely are. She gave us the really compelling bits – the beauty that was stolen, the lives that could have been, the futures lost, the damage done to the survivors. And Danya Kukafka removed all of that from this story. I don’t find men hating women, men torturing women, men being glorified for evil all that interesting.
And, yes, Ansel is technically the main character, but the book is much more about these other characters, their rich and detailed and often heartbreaking lives, Ansel is simply the ghost that haunts them all. There are brief chapters counting down his final hours in between chapters told from three women’s perspectives – Lavender, Ansel’s mother, Saffy, the detective who hunts him, and Hazel, his sister-in-law. The premise of this one is simple, it is the day of Ansel Power’s execution. I am never so pleased to be wrong than when it comes to loving an unexpected book. So even though I’d seen glowing review after breathless recommendation of Notes On an Execution, I doubted I’d get past 20%. I went in to this book so wary! I’m not a huge fan of serial killers or the true crime mania that glorifies men who murder (mostly) women.
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