Emma Wells

For fans of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and The Bandit Queens comes the debut novel from Emma C. Wells: a bright and biting suspense thriller. Meet Cordelia Black: a best friend, a businesswoman and, in her spare time, a killer of bad men. Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer will always be: He had it coming. Cordelia loves exactly three things: Her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip), and killing bad men. By day, she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men?monsters who think they’ve evaded justice…until they meet her. Sure, the evening news may have started throwing around phrases like “serial killer,” but Cordelia knows that’s absurd. She’s not a killer; she is simply karma. And being karma requires complete and utter control. But the pressure heightens when Cordelia discovers a flaw in her perfectly designed system for eliminating monsters. And it only intensifies when her best friend starts dating a man Cordelia isn't sure is a good person. Someone who might just unravel everything she has worked for. Soon enough, Cordelia has to come face-to-face with the choices she's made?the good, the bad, and the murderous. Both her family, and her freedom, depend on it. A gripping mystery thriller from an exciting new voice in crime fiction, This Girl’s a Killer is sharp, empowering and viciously compelling. Tropes Feminist Thriller Serial Killer Female Rage Suspense Mystery

The emergence of the Gothic in twelfth-century France, an architectural style characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, flying buttresses, large windows and elaborate tracery, triggered an explosion of cathedral-building across western Europe. It is this remarkable flowering of ecclesiastical architecture that forms the central core of Emma Wells's authoritative but accessible study of the golden age of the cathedral. Prefacing her account with the construction in the sixth century of the Hagia Sophia, the remarkable Christian cathedral of the eastern Roman empire, she goes on to chart the construction of a glittering sequence of iconic structures, including Saint-Denis, Notre-Dame, Canterbury, Chartres, Salisbury, York Minster and Florence's Duomo. More than architectural biographies, these are human stories of triumph and tragedy that take the reader from the chaotic atmosphere of the mason's yard to the cloisters of power. Together, they reveal how 1000 years of cathedral-building shaped modern Europe, and influenced art, culture and society around the world.