The Pocket Wife
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3.8 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour's house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo - a photo of Dana's husband with another woman - and Dana has blank spots of what happened to the rest of the afternoon . . .
This is a thriller that makes the reader question everything. Dana, we learn, has a history of mental illness and as she descends into another manic episode, the line between what actually happened and what she has imagined becomes blurred.
A gripping domestic psychological thriller for fans of ASA Harrison's The Silent Wife and Sabine Durrant's Under Your Skin, The Pocket Wife will stay with you - as all good thrillers do - long after you've finished it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dana Catrell, the heroine of Crawford's quirkily endearing debut, desperately needs to figure out what happened in those boozy, woozy hours between her argument with neighbor Celia Steinhauser and the discovery of the woman's body ideally before Paterson, N.J., Det. Jack Moss gets to the bottom of it. Though suburban homemaker Dana doesn't believe herself capable of murder, she can't be sure since she stopped taking meds for her bipolar disorder. Fortunately for Dana, Jack, who reminds her of her first love, is also somewhat off his game in the wake of his wife's departure and the discovery that his estranged son, Kyle, seems to have been suspiciously close to Celia, Kyle's GED teacher. As Dana continues to spiral out of control, her accelerating mania clouding her perceptions, Crawford manages for the most part to sidestep clich and preserve her leading lady's spunk, humor, and dignity. Although she's less successful resolving the mystery, both Dana and Jack deserve an encore.
Customer Reviews
Absorbing
Yes it's a detective story but sometimes you feel that even though the author takes you into the head of the characters it's possible that the killer doesn't realise that he or she has murdered. You have to read to the end to find out but the clues were there all the time.