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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.
"Readers will be fascinated by the abject coldness of Millicent, the odd and unreliable narrator, and the almost unbelievable denouement." - Booklist
"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." - Publishers Weekly
"Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense." - Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Clever. Manipulative. Dark. Disturbing. What more can you ask for?" - Jane Corry, national bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
"An assured and deliciously engrossing debut. You'll surely devour My Lovely Wife, but it will linger long after you've reached the last page." - Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
"You'll never look at your neighbors the same. I couldn't pull myself away from this story...Make sure you clear your schedule before you pick it up. Absolutely unputdownable." - Liv Constantine, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish
"Truly horrifying in the most delicious way. Samantha Downing sucks you in with a great story, pitch-perfect prose and disturbingly dead-on insights into the dark side of human nature. I hope I never meet her in a dark alley..." - Nick Petrie, national bestselling author of The Drifter
"A fantastic foray into what we know - and what we do not - about those closest to us. Intricately plotted, fascinating characters - I loved it!" - Heather Graham, New York Times bestselling author of Fade to Black
"Dark, twisted - and impossible to put down. Samantha Downing has written a wickedly plotted and suspenseful psychological thriller." - Meg Gardiner, Edgar award-winning author
"I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year! I have a sneaky feeling this is going to be big!" - C.J. Tudor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man
"Totally engrossing and I kept on thinking, one more chapter…an intelligent page-turner that makes you question everything." - Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty
"It's no mean feat to find something fresh in the crowded thriller field, but Downing pulls off an indisputable triumph with My Lovely Wife. Exemplary writing and outstanding pacing confirm Downing's talent, but it's her deliciously depraved characters that kept me flying through the pages. Couldn't get enough of this subversive love-gone-sideways tale!" - Sophie Littlefield, national bestselling author
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Samantha Downing currently lives in New Orleans, where she is furiously typing away on her next thrilling standalone. My Lovely Wife is her first novel.
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