Anne Elvedal

Those Who Kill on a Monday

A wickedly original blend of crime fiction and slam poetry. Anne Elvedal reinvents the crime genre with this dark, witty, and genre-defying collection of short stories told in rhyme.

Each tale is a compact mystery — morbid, funny, serious, and surprising — delivered with sharp rhythm, poetic flair, and a killer twist.

Fifteen crime slams. Fifteen murders. Fifteen very human killers.
All of them strike on a Monday.

We meet a wife driven to the edge by her husband’s loud chewing, a sleazy old man, a disillusioned lawyer, a divorced father, a bullied schoolboy, a nun, a cop, a beauty and a beast — and a bowling team, too.

People say murderers are monsters. But there are no monsters here. Only people.

Those Who Kill on a Monday is a fast-paced, inventive and addictive read — like Agatha Christie with rhythm and rhymes.

Illustrated by Knut Nærum.