Karenlee Thompson

Karenlee Thompson is an Australian-born writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Author of a bushfire-themed collection of short fictions (Flame Tip), her work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia and overseas. She wrote commissioned art pieces for MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), and was shortlisted for a number of prizes, including The Tasmanian Writers Prize, the Scottish Arts Trust, and the Hal Porter. Karenlee has a degree in Journalism and English Literature.

A two-book deal with Sourcebooks LLC, USA, will see Karenlee’s first crime thriller, Sister, Butcher, Sister released in 2025.

Karenlee’s crime/thriller books are to be released under the pseudonym KD Aldyn, quite separate from her upmarket/literary fiction.

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Sister Butcher Sister by Karenlee Thompson writing as K D Aldyn is to be published by Sourcebooks USA on 3^rd June 2025 and is available in all the usual places.

The chilling prose of Karin Slaughter meets the high-stakes plotting of The Butcher and the Wren in a dark debut following three normal sisters, their own forgotten traumas, and the serial killer that lives within one, begging the question: can you ever truly recognize the evil around you?

Three sisters. One killer. Which one is SHE?

The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too. But when Kate, the eldest, finally returns to buy her late grandfather’s home, the dark things each sister has kept buried soon rise to the surface.

Is Kate having unexplained visions tied to a past she can hardly recall? Is Aurora, the married mother of two, finally acting out in the face of her sisters’ indiscretions? Is Peggy, the youngest and a recovering addict, able to move on from the memories that haunt her?

And then there’s SHE.

SHE is one of them, but SHE is not like them at all. SHE is defined only by the carnage she lets the world see, the murders that have swept through their coastal community. And as the police close in on their newest serial killer, scrutiny lands on the Rowlings, forcing them to face their demons and reveal all they have kept hidden.

ISBN: 9781464236631

ASIN ‏: ‎ B0DJRPXLBN (eBook)