How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson, out February 24, 2026, starts with a wink and a dare—“If you picked up this book because you truly want to get away with murder…”—and initially feels like it might settle into familiar police-procedural territory. It doesn’t. What begins as a fairly standard investigation quickly mutates into something sharper, stranger, and genuinely hard to put down.
Detective Inspector Samantha Hansen returns to Scotland Yard after a six-month medical leave, determined to prove she hasn’t lost her edge. Her reentry point is grim: the murder of fourteen-year-old Charlotte, whose backpack contains a copy of a self-help book titled How to Get Away with Murder. The book’s author, Denver Brady, claims to be a serial killer so successful no one knows his name—and as its contents go viral, it becomes disturbingly clear that someone is taking its lessons to heart.
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