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My Lovely Wife

by Samantha Downing

A marriage built around a dangerous secret

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A marriage built around a dangerous secret

A suburban couple’s familiar milestones—falling in love, raising children, and settling into neighborhood life—form the backdrop to a marriage that has grown dangerously unconventional. The narrator frames the relationship as a love story while revealing that the couple’s shared secret involves murder. That contrast between domestic normality and criminal partnership gives the premise its psychological-suspense focus, with marriage, boredom, secrecy, and the performance of respectability all in play.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of psychological thrillers centered on marriage and hidden lives.
  • For readers interested in domestic settings disrupted by criminal secrets.

Themes

Marriage and secrecyDomestic respectabilityBoredom and dangerMurder

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Book overview

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.
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