KILL YOURS, KILL MINE

Six women consumed by rage take justice into their own hands.

Naomi’s skeptical of the therapy that hasn’t helped her come to terms with the murder of her sister and the fact that the killer walks free. She reluctantly goes to her therapist Mia’s group meeting, where she meets Amy, Gabrielle, Katy, Brooke, and Olivia, all women whose sisters were killed by significant others who went unpunished. At first Naomi’s shocked when Mia mentions Strangers on a Train as providing a pattern for the women to arrange the deaths of their sisters’ killers so that the suspect with a motive has an ironclad alibi. They’ll work in groups of two and carry out each murder by different means so that no pattern is established. Agreeing to go ahead with the plan, the women pair up and meticulously plot each death to look like an accident. As a mining engineer, Naomi helps Katy plan how to take the first target, an opal miner, with Olivia as her backup. Well planned and well executed, the project goes off without a hitch, but it’s too much to hope that none of the others will meet problems. Perhaps the most dangerous problem is Detective Senior Sergeant Fiona Ulbrick, who’s not happy about victims of domestic abuse who died in so-called accidents while their abusers were acquitted. After several of the men die, Ulbrick begins to notice a pattern after all, but can she prove—does she even want to prove—that the men were murdered?

A harrowing story of the moral ambiguities surrounding justice denied.