My Lovely Wife
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4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
USA Today bestseller
Edgar + ITW Thriller Award nominee for Best First Novel
“Think: Dexter but sexier.”—theSkimm
“A dark and irresistible debut.”—People
“Will shock even the savviest suspense readers.”—Real Simple
Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting...
Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.
We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.
We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive.
Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A warning: My Lovely Wife might leave you second-guessing every suburban couple you meet. Millicent and her husband—our unnamed narrator—couldn’t seem more like a regular, unassuming, and fairly unspectacular pair if they tried, but there’s a dark and devilishly macabre secret keeping their marriage alive. No spoilers here, but fans of Dexter may want to investigate this book. Just when you think you’ve settled into debut author Samantha Downing’s unrelenting pace, another dark twist will get your pulse racing again.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The discovery of a corpse in an abandoned Woodview, Fla., motel kick-starts Downing's taut debut. Police identify the victim as Lindsay, a young woman who went missing a year earlier and was apparently held captive for months before being strangled. This revelation shocks the book's 39-year-old unnamed narrator, since he and his wife, Millicent, were the ones who abducted Lindsay as part of a ploy to spice up their marriage. Millicent was supposed to have immediately killed and dumped Lindsay in a swamp, but she now claims that in order to distract the authorities, she changed their m.o. to match that of Owen Oliver Riley, a notorious local serial killer who escaped conviction. Millicent's husband initially relishes the idea of a suspicion-free killing spree, but quickly learns that resurrecting the local bogeyman has consequences. Downing's tale unfolds slowly and sinuously, building tension about the couples' fate while revealing the origins of their homicidal hobby. The first-person, present-tense narration makes readers feel uncomfortably complicit in all that transpires, underscoring the plot's grim and twisted nature. Readers will eagerly await Downing's next thriller. Author tour.)
Customer Reviews
Good
A little slow at times. Definitely didn’t expect the ending though!
My Lovely Wife
This is definitely a page turner. I love the portrayal of the protagonist in the beginning. I love the parts when he pretends to be deaf to get women to let their guard down. Very clever! But I was a little disappointed in the end, because the protagonist is then portrayed as if he is totally innocent. When in reality, the couple (him and his wife) literally work together to capture and kill some of the women throughout the book. This book is definitely filled with some unexpected twists, some of which I should have seen coming. Nevertheless, they were great plot twists. I just wasn’t a big fan of the ending, which is why I gave it 4 stars, instead of 5. But to be fair, it is very difficult to write a captivating ending.
@jess.hookedonbooks
Awesome read
So good. Loved it