She is both more relatable and more complex, but Jennings never slows down enough to develop this character. The brevity makes for a quick pace, and the sections of the story that focus on Villanelle are full of action and sumptuous glimpses of European luxury, and Jennings gives us just enough backstory to believe in this glamorous psychopath. This book is a novella compared to most thrillers, it’s quite short, and readers looking for a conclusion will be dissatisfied by the cliffhanger ending. There are significant differences between the show and the books, but one thing they share is their episodic nature. The basic outline of this story will be familiar to viewers watching the BBC America series starring Sandra Oh. Finding his murderer quickly becomes Eve’s obsession, and it soon becomes clear that Eve and Villanelle have more in common than it seems at first glance. They’re thinking about having a baby when a Russian nationalist is murdered on Eve’s watch. She lives in a cluttered, tiny flat with her adoring husband, Niko, a math teacher. Eve Polastri is Villanelle’s polar opposite. That’s where she crosses paths with a midlevel functionary in the British intelligence service. Her work for a mysterious consortium called “The Twelve” takes her from Paris to Palermo and then to London. So Oxana becomes Villanelle, and Villanelle is an assassin. A short, brutal existence in a penal colony is her likeliest future-until a stranger offers her an alternative.
Oxana Vorontsova is studying linguistics at university when she's arrested for murder.
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