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The Cancer Patient's Kill List by B.M. Hardin

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Cheryl Ann has spent her life as the good girl: the dependable wife, mother, and woman everyone counts on. Then she is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and told she has four to six weeks left, and the rules she lived by start to look like a waste of time.

With so little time, she writes a list of the people who deserve to die before she does. It turns out that killing someone is harder than wishing it, and the plan pulls secrets, mistakes, lies, and crime to the surface.

The Cancer Patient’s Kill List is billed as a twisted, darkly funny psychological thriller, with a heroine who goes bad, sort of. At its center is a question the book puts to the reader: who would you kill if you were out of time?

The tone pairs dark humor with real emotional stakes. Readers on StoryGraph tag it dark, emotional, funny, and medium-paced.

It suits readers who like a morally gray heroine, a revenge plot driven by a list of targets, and a thriller that does not take itself too seriously.

Cheryl Ann has spent her life as the good girl: the dependable wife, mother, and woman everyone counts on. Then she is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and told she has four to six weeks left, and the rules she lived by start to look like a waste of time.

With so little time, she writes a list of the people who deserve to die before she does. It turns out that killing someone is harder than wishing it, and the plan pulls secrets, mistakes, lies, and crime to the surface.

The Cancer Patient’s Kill List is billed as a twisted, darkly funny psychological thriller, with a heroine who goes bad, sort of. At its center is a question the book puts to the reader: who would you kill if you were out of time?

The tone pairs dark humor with real emotional stakes. Readers on StoryGraph tag it dark, emotional, funny, and medium-paced.

It suits readers who like a morally gray heroine, a revenge plot driven by a list of targets, and a thriller that does not take itself too seriously.

  • Publisher: Hardin Book Co.

    Title: The Cancer Patient's Kill List: A Twisted, Darkly Funny Psychological Thriller Where The Good Girl Goes Bad...Sort of.

    Author: B.M. Hardin

    On Sale Date: July 22, 2026

    ISBN 13: 978-1-7369-4376-2

    ISBN 10: 1736943766

    Format: Paperback

    Retail Price: $20.42

    Page Count: 400

    Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.91 inches

  • B.M. Hardin is the author of the psychological thriller The Cancer Patient's Kill List, published on July 22, 2026 by Hardin Book Co. Earlier titles listed under the same name include Everybody Lies (2019), Secrets of the South (2018), and The Wrong Shade of Lipstick (2014). The new novel has drawn more than 1,000 ratings on Amazon and over 1,100 on Goodreads.

  • What readers can expect:

    • A premise stated plainly: a woman told she has four to six weeks left writes a list of the people who deserve to die before she does.

    • A thriller billed as twisted and darkly funny, which readers on StoryGraph tag as dark, emotional, funny, and medium-paced.

    • A strong reader response, with about 4.5 stars on Amazon from more than 1,000 ratings and 4.4 on Goodreads from roughly 1,100.

    • A full-length paperback of about 400 pages, published July 22, 2026.

This book is for you if

  • You like a good girl gone bad, where a dependable wife and mother decides the rules she lived by no longer apply.

  • You want dark humor around a terminal diagnosis, in a thriller that does not take itself too seriously.

  • You enjoy a revenge plot built around a list of targets, and the discovery that killing someone is harder than wishing it.

  • You're drawn to a cast of suspects from everyday life, including in-laws, neighbors, church, and the PTA, and the secrets that surface along the way.

  • You're looking for a psychological thriller with a strong reader following: about 4.5 stars on Amazon from more than 1,000 ratings.

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