A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage introduced the irresistible Lalla Rook; and now she takes on her biggest challenge yet: working motherhood—and perhaps hiding the body of her dead CFO.

After a minor shoplifting incident leads to some rare self-reflection, Lalla Rook decides that motherhood is no longer enough. Six months later she is CEO of her late husband’s company, wearing the right suit, projecting an impossible standard of perfection, and even breastfeeding her new baby while staring at the dead CFO on her office floor.

Will Fox’s accidental death should be a simple workplace tragedy. Unfortunately, Lalla has threatened him over some figures, and so she decides to hide his body in a wine fridge, and ask her assistant to procure the largest suitcase she can find.

Lalla is fighting on every front: a hostile board wants her removed, her daughter Nelly is being bullied in the brutal prep-school hierarchy, her husband Stephen wants her back in the domestic sphere, and her mother-in-law Madeleine is manoeuvring for control of the children.

But when Lalla realizes that Will Fox might have been investigating fraudulent figures, she is determined to prove her innocence and achieve victory. Because Lalla has learned all too well that behind every glamorous and successful woman is a man trying to trip her up.