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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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Release date
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- ISBN: 9780451491749
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- ISBN: 9780451491749
- File size: 1261 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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February 1, 2019
Downing's debut thriller offers a chilling look into the marriage of two psychopaths. Our unnamed narrator (known mostly by an alias, Quentin) likes to pick up women in bars while pretending to be deaf. His wife, Millicent, is perfectly fine with this because he brings them home for her to torture and murder. When the freshly killed body of a young woman is found, nearly a full year after Millicent was supposed to have dumped her, Quentin realizes that Millicent is apparently playing a different game than he thought. They think they're safe, though, because she planted several clues that match the MO of a serial killer who has been on the loose for over a decade. Things start to unravel?best-laid plans and all that?and the couple's relationship quickly spirals into a cat-and-mouse game. Whom can you trust when your spouse is a lunatic? Meanwhile, the couple's two (seemingly normal) children know nothing of their parents' extracurricular activities. Readers will be fascinated by the abject coldness of Millicent, the odd and unreliable narrator, and the almost unbelievable denouement.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.) -
October 15, 2018
Happily married to the love of your life but, yeah, after 15 years getting a little bored? Here's a solution from the couple at the heart of Downing's debut: getting away with murder. Bought in a preempt after 48 hours; foreign rights are starting to boil.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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