Her Prodigal Husband
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Publisher Description
From the award-winning author of the internationally-bestselling Brigid Quinn thrillers, which have been translated into twenty languages, comes this gripping series spin-off: an upmarket novel of domestic suspense about a pair of sisters nicknamed Malice and Lethal, and a husband who vanishes into thin air, only to reappear and throw a bomb into both their lives
Alice Einstein – known as “Malice” to her former schoolfriends – likes to tell herself stories. There’s a good one she’s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she’s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse sister Liesl’s spare room.
But then Liesl sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back.
Sam, Liesl’s wealthy ex-husband, vanished ten years ago, leaving her a chunk of money but no explanation. Sam is handsome, charming, manipulative . . . and now he claims he’s sick. But Alice, with her experience of spinning tales, knows a liar when she sees one.
Haunted by a childhood tragedy that gave birth to the cruel nickname “Lethal”, Liesl now specialises in saving things: dogs, children, sisters. Telling herself it’s time she returned the favor, Alice engages the services of Brigid Quinn, a hardboiled local private investigator with a shady past, to help her get rid of Sam for good.
But as the plot thickens, Alice begins to wonder if she knows anyone involved – most of all herself – quite as well as she thinks . . .
Packed with quirky, colorful characters, and with a nail-biting, slowburn plot, Her Prodigal Husband is a nail-biting novel of domestic suspense that raises thought-provoking questions about self-deception, the power of stories, and what it means to be a family, and marks the long-awaited return of Brigid Quinn, “one of the most memorable FBI agents since Clarice Starling” (Publishers Weekly).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this canny spin-off of her Brigid Quinn series, Masterman (Maternal Instinct) turns the focus to frustrated novelist Alice Einstein. After failing to make good on her early literary promise, Alice has spent the last several years writing greeting card messages while living with her younger sister, Liesl, in Saddlebrooke, Ariz. Ever since Liesl's husband, Sam, disappeared a decade earlier, kindhearted Liesl has concerned herself with such causes as migrant housing and environmental conservation. Chaos swoops into the sisters' lives when Sam suddenly returns to Saddlebrooke; Alice is skeptical of his motives, but an ecstatic Liesl welcomes him with open arms. As Alice tries—with the help of PI Brigid Quinn—to find out why Sam has reappeared, she realizes she may have the material for a thriller that'll put her back in the publishing game—or at least get her agent to return her calls. What Alice doesn't bet on, however, is just how much she'll learn about her sister over the course of her and Brigid's investigation. Masterman piles on the twists, schemes, and false assumptions but grounds each revelation in the lives of her three-dimensional characters. The results are wickedly satisfying.
