And Abby found his boots and freshly laundered clothes shoved in the trash. Daughter Lori heard him crying in the bathroom late at night. Clients of his caretaking company ask why he hasn’t come by to clean up their property, yet he claims to have spent the entire day doing just that. Ībby Gilpin has noticed some odd behavior from her husband Ray. If we don’t talk about the monsters in this world, John’s voice whispered, we won’t be ready for them when they jump out from under the bed. ‘When you talked to him, did he give you any indication something was wrong?’ If he wasn’t going to work each day in the fresh shirts Kate had ironed and left out for him, where was he going? How was he spending his days? Who was he with? She fluctuated wildly between feeling scared for her husband and feeling furious at him, between wondering where he was, and where he had been. Her body felt off balance some parts were numb, others were aching. The bigger question was where had John been for the past three months? Nausea swept through her system.

A conference, she quickly discovers, he never attended. The pages to see the clues you’ve missed.Kate Keddie’s smooth, predictable life careens off course when her husband, John, doesn’t return from a medical conference in London. Have been so blind, and you will find yourself madly scrabbling back through Point when everything will be turned on its head, you will wonder how you could Unsettling read that will keep you guessing all the way through…until a certain To say much more would be a spoiler, but this is an The trail of deception runs deep and nothing is quite what it seems. Independently set out to discover the truth, but in this shape-shifting novel, She discovers evidence that her husband may be a murderer. Abby, an island local, is distressed when Widowed, distraught by grief and by what she learns after her husband’s death about The narrative is told from two perspectives. This small, closed community is the perfect setting for a Of an oily rag, caretaking the shuttered holiday houses of the rich people from

During the long winter season, the local residents survive on the smell Tourists for three months of the year, but mostly empty for the remaining nine The story is set on Belport Island, a small community busy with With engaging characters, an intriguing plot and an absolute KILLER twist, The Wife and the Widow ticks all the right boxes for a fascinating crime read and is sure to have book clubs around the country deep in discussion. Christian White’s best-selling debut The Nowhere Child took the world by storm, and his second novel The Wife and the Widow (Affirm Press 2019) is another psychological crime thriller that will have readers on the edges of their seats.

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