Beautiful Ugly
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 14 Jan 2025
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
‘Her best book yet’ – Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me Once
The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists, Alice Feeney, returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage . . . and revenge.
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by a cliff edge, the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there . . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible: a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change, but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change, but they do.
‘Magnetic and jaw-dropping’ – Mary Kubica, bestselling author of Local Woman Missing
‘Unforgettable’ – Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s with good reason that British writer Alice Feeney has been dubbed “Queen of Twists”. Her thought-provoking books are carefully plotted to surprise us in the most satisfying ways. This eerie psychological thriller is no exception, setting up the suspense right from the opening. Author Grady Green is waiting to hear whether his new book has cracked the bestseller list. He’s also waiting for his wife Abby, an investigative journalist who often exposes wrongdoing committed by men. He phones her on her way home, but the call ends abruptly—and Grady later discovers that Abby has disappeared from her car near a cliff edge. A year later, while still in the depths of despair, Grady spots a woman who looks just like Abby, flooding him with uncertainty about not just his wife’s wellbeing but their marriage. Set largely on an evocatively described secluded Scottish island, this is a gripping locked-room mystery with an unreliable narrator and delicious seeds of doubt planted everywhere.
