Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eating The Cheshire Cat | 2000 | Helen Ellis | Buy |
| 2 | What Curiosity Kills | 2010 | Helen Ellis | Buy |
Helen Ellis’s standalone novels bookend a long gap in her publishing career. Eating The Cheshire Cat (2000) was her debut, a Southern Gothic-tinged story about obsession and social competition among young women in Alabama. The novel drew notice for its dark humor and willingness to push its characters into extreme situations.
What Curiosity Kills (2010) came a decade later and is a young adult novel, a departure from the adult literary fiction of her debut. Both books share Ellis’s ear for voice and her interest in characters who are not quite what they seem on the surface.