Through these books, readers have encountered cheating spouses, duplicitous best friends, drinking problems, neighbors with hidden agendas-but they’ve never encountered anything quite like Millicent and her husband, the demented couple at the heart of Samantha Downing’s debut suspense novel, MY LOVELY WIFE. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.įor the past few years, the seemingly relentless tide of domestic suspense novels have been asking readers to consider how well we really know those closest to us. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets.
As for me, it had been a long time since I read a book that was this fun to devour, and I’m already eagerly anticipating what Downing will do next. MY LOVELY WIFE is wicked fun to read readers looking for a suspense novel with plenty of entertainment value that doesn’t take itself too seriously will be hooked on Downing’s razor-sharp debut. But rest assured, Downing gets it very right.
Let’s be clear: this book has a wild, larger-than-life premise - and it’s one that, frankly, could go wrong in less capable hands. In MY LOVELY WIFE, Downing pushes the domestic suspense novel to its limits-and the result is a hugely entertaining, seriously sinister suspense read. Sound over the top? It is, but in the best possible way. That’s right, this book centers around a pair of ordinary suburban spouses whose date nights involve death. Smith meets Dexter,” Samantha Downing’s deliciously dark debut crime novel MY LOVELY WIFE follows a married couple with a unique way of keeping the spark in their relationship alive… serial murder.
The Verdict: addictive, wickedly irresistible domestic suspenseĪppropriately billed as “ Mr.
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