My Lovely Wife by Samantha DowningRead about another thriller on the list.
After 15 years of marriage, Millicent and Tobias are bored and uncommunicative. To save their marriage, they plan out a ridiculous series of murders. Hiding secrets from each other and shifting blame, Millicent and Tobias find themselves caught in a complicated web with no way out. The contrast between murders and mundane details of everyday suburban life makes this novel all the more chilling.
My Lovely Wife is among Darby Kane's seven top thrillers with couples who don’t get (or deserve) a happy ending, Misha Popp's eight titles featuring truly fatal femmes fatales, Sarah Bonner's thirteen psychological thrillers with gobsmacking twists, Kaira Rouda's thirteen books highlighting the wives in domestic suspense, Alice Feeney's eight top novels featuring odd couples & unexpected partnerships, Pip Drysdale's seven top revenge thrillers featuring women who have had enough, Christina McDonald's seven top thrillers with flawed characters, C.J. Tudor's seven crime novels where murder is a group activity, Lisa Levy's top seven psychological thrillers with manipulative male narrators, Kaira Rouda's top seven literary couples whose relationships are deeply disturbing in the most fascinating ways possible, and Margot Hunt's top five villains who have had about enough of domestic life.
The Page 69 Test: My Lovely Wife.
--Marshal Zeringue
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