A twisted thriller about a couple who are not all they seem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The set-up for My Lovely Wife<\/em> is intriguing and it\u2019s hard to avoid giving away too much in the way of spoilers. \u2018Tobias\u2019 narrates this story. He\u2019s married to Millicent and they live together in an idyllic gated community in Florida with their two kids Jenna and Rory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the book opens up with Tobias claiming to be deaf and trying to pick up a woman in a bar. He\u2019s scouting out a potential victim. And his wife is in on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This a dark page-turner, with young married couple who have some seriously unusual tendencies. Tobias is a tennis coach in the local country club. Millicent is a real estate agent who has sold numerous properties in and around their exclusive community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But murder isn\u2019t straightforward, and although Tobias and Millicent are in it together, they have their own separate roles \u2013 not always asking precisely what the other is doing. Things begin to unravel when to cover their tracks, they decide to construct a way to cover their tracks and keep investigators away from what\u2019s really happening. Inevitably, this has unintended consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The obvious comparison here would be the Dexter novels, but unlike those, the victims are mostly blameless. These are clearly twisted people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is a rip-roaring read, and while I suspect that you could poke holes at some elements of the plot, the story is tightly constructed and makes internal sense. You\u2019re certainly never sure how things will resolve themselves by the end, and the final act is tense as a consequence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n