Honey (Random House) by Imani Thompson unwinds a psychological horror story wound tautly in the spool of feminine rage and ambition. Thompson, a London-based writer of Jamaican and Scottish descent, presents a calculating, complex protagonist in the form of Yrsa, a PhD student at Cambridge who tires of the duplicitous, dangerous ways of men. In Yrsa’s murderous journey towards fulfilment, Honey scrapes at the underside of racialized injustice in academia, revealing rot at the core of hallowed institutions. In propulsive prose, the novel careens towards an unpredictable, highly satisfying end.