The Murders of Molly Southbourne is a 2017 horror novella by Nigerian-British writer Tade Thompson.

[1] A bruised and bloodied woman wakes chained to a wall, unable to remember her name or how she arrived in her situation.

She drops out of college and is hired as a research assistant by anatomy professor James Down, whom she eventually dates.

As a government spy, her mother was ordered to steal the biomedical research of a professor investigating declining female fertility.

[2] Others compared it positively to other works featuring doppelgängers, such as William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe.

Cathy Schulman is slated to produce a film adaptation, along with Krishnan Menon and Adam Stone.