Tag Archives: Murder & Attempted Murder

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of murder and attempted murder.

See also Genocide and mass murder, and War themes & military violence.

Oaths and Omissions by Sav Miller

Oaths and Omissions by Sav R. Miller

Lenny Primrose is a puppet.⁣⁣ A temptress sent to make my life bloody miserable.⁣⁣ Adored by the public and used for her father’s benefit.⁣⁣ Every man wants her, and every woman wants to be her. She’s good for my reputation.⁣⁣ That’s the only reason I agree to the little devil’s proposal.⁣⁣ I’m game.⁣⁣ Willing to play pretend to get what I want.⁣⁣ Until what I want is her.⁣⁣ Now, there are no rules.⁣⁣ I’ll wage a war against the world just to keep her. Even the deadliest men have their vices, and she happens to be mine.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Binge & compulsive eating
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Branding
  • Physical assault

Vipers and Virtuosos by Sav Miller

Vipers and Virtuosos by Sav R. Miller

Aiden. From the second I saw her, I knew she’d be my ruin. Sitting all alone at the bar, she looked like an angel. Eurydice in human form; her beauty eclipsed by demons. Now, I’m one of them. The ghost she’s tried for years to escape. Thinking I wouldn’t be able to find her. But I never stopped trying, and now that I have, Her past sins should be the least of her worries. Riley. From the moment he saw me, I knew I’d ruin his life. Alone at the bar, I dared the monster to come and play. Orpheus in the flesh, with his sad songs and strange obsessions. I became one of them. The siren who calls… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking mentioned
  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Sexual assault & dubious consent scenarios
  • Physical, psychological & sexual child abuse mentioned
  • Suicide & attempted suicide mentioned
  • Self-harm discussed
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder mentioned
  • Stalking

*Context : The heroine is an eighteen-year-old high school student and the hero is a twenty-two-year-old man.

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

Elena. To most, Kal Anderson is a villain. Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. Doctor Death. Hades incarnate. They say he stole me. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. They’re not wrong, per see. Except it was my choice to stay. Kal. To most, Elena Ricci is an innocent. Goddess of springtime, lover of poetry, angel of my nightmares. Little one. Persephone personified. They say I ruined her. Shattered her virtue and devoured her soul like a succulent pomegranate.
Embedded my evil as deep as I could… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & knife play
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping

*Note : This is an age-gap romance with a heroine who is twenty years old and a hero who is thirty-two years old.

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite. Your name is Charlie Worthing and it’s your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cannibalism
  • Loss of limb
  • Medical experimentation
  • Murder
  • Torture

Hanging by a Thread by Sophie Littlefield

Hanging by a Thread by Sophie Littlefield

Summer is the best part of the year in Winston, California, and the Fourth of July is the highlight of the season. But the perfect town Clare remembers has changed, and everyone is praying that this summer will be different from the last two—that this year’s Fourth of July festival won’t see one of their own vanish without a trace, leaving no leads and no suspects. The media are in a frenzy predicting a third disappearance, but the town depends on tourist dollars, so the residents of Winston are trying desperately to pretend nothing’s wrong. And they’re not the only ones… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Murder

The Swifts by Beth Lincoln

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred family dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, one it’s assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift doesn’t much like being told what to do. Troublemaker and mischief enthusiast Shenanigan rattles around the grand old Swift house rehearsing Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral with her older sisters Phenomena and Felicity, plotting future crimes, and wondering whether she is herself by choice or design. When the Family Reunion floods the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder recounted
  • Gun, crossbow & knife violence

Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood

Wildblood by Lauren Blackwood

Eighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood. Kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she’s worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travellers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters. When the boss denies Victoria an earned promotion to team leader in favour of Dean, her backstabbing ex, she’s determined to prove herself. Her magic may be the most powerful on the team, but she’s not the image the boss wants to send their new client, Thorn, a renowned… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual assault
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Murder
  • Animal attack (bull)

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man–the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family’s killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim’s not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man. Jim soon beings to realize how dangerously close Eve is getting to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Murder of parents & sister recounted

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

Meet Winter Young – International pop sensation, with a voice like velvet and looks that could kill. His star power has smashed records, selling out stadiums from LA to London. His rabid fans would move heaven and earth for even a glimpse of him – just imagine what they’d do to become his latest fling. Meet Sydney Cossette – Part of an elite covert ops group, Sydney joined their ranks as their youngest spy with plans to become the best agent they’ve ever had. An ice queen with moves as dangerous as her comebacks, Sydney picks up languages just as quickly as she breaks… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Physical child abuse
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Dismemberment
  • Murder
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Graphic death from poisoning
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Kidnapping

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic writer RM Holland, she teaches a short course on it every year. Then Clare’s life and work collide tragically when one of her colleagues is found dead, a line from an RM Holland story by her body. The investigating police detective is convinced the writer’s works somehow hold the key to the case. Not knowing who to trust, and afraid that the killer is someone she knows, Clare confides her darkest suspicions and fears about the case to her journal. Then one day she notices some other writing in the diary. Writing that isn’t hers…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Physical injury to a dog