The Wife
A Novel of Psychological Suspense
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4.0 • 146 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“This might be the most gripping, insightful work from the best-selling author Alafair Burke yet. She poses a seemingly impossible, if undeniably compelling, challenge: a woman must either save her life or defend her husband, but not both.” — Entertainment Weekly
From New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke, a stunning domestic thriller in the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Woman in Cabin 10—in which a woman must make the impossible choice between defending her husband and saving herself.
His Scandal - Her Secret
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother’s home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.
Six years later, thanks to a bestselling book and a growing media career, Jason has become a cultural lightning rod, placing Angela near the spotlight she worked so carefully to avoid. When a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their life begins to unravel. Jason insists he is innocent, and Angela believes him. But when Kerry disappears, Angela is forced to take a closer look—at both the man she married and the women she chose not to believe.
This much-anticipated follow-up to Burke’s Edgar-nominated The Ex asks how far a wife will go to protect the man she loves.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This electric, of-the-moment thriller tackles moral philosophy and police procedures with equal gusto. Jason Powell, an expert in ethical investing, stands accused of multiple sexual assaults, and his wife Angela’s closely guarded history prevents her from fully taking his side. Alafair Burke, author of The Ex and 14 other crime thrillers, unspools Angela’s secrets at a steady, almost serene pace—until the end, when we were floored by a mountainous switchback of heartbreaking revelations about Angela’s past and her husband’s actions.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Angela Powell, the unreliable narrator of this plot-propelled roller-coaster of a domestic thriller from Edgar-finalist Burke (The Ex), is the wife of a respected NYU economics professor and rising media star and the mother of a 13-year-old. She leads a privileged, if somewhat boring life which is precisely what she craves after miraculously surviving, as a teen, the kind of ordeal that spawns true crime tomes. But then intern Rachel Sutton accuses her husband, Jason, of sexual harassment, and a second woman comes forward to claim rape and then suddenly vanishes. NYPD Det. Corrine Duncan doggedly investigates the initial allegations and later the disappearance of consultant Kerry Lynch, who Jason claims was his mistress. In the process, Corinne uncovers Angela's painstakingly buried past, and it starts to look as though almost no one, maybe least of all Angela, is who he or she seems. As riveting as Burke's increasingly jaw-dropping twists prove, they eventually undermine the believability of her principals.
Customer Reviews
Didn’t see it coming
For once, I didn’t see THAT plot twist at the end!! Such a great read!!
Okay read
Good but predictable.
The wife
Such a disappointing disorganized ending. All that reading for what? What actually happened to the husband….who knows?. Everything up in the air. And such a ridiculous twist in the end involving the Wife’s mother. Ridiculous.