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Too Old For This

The deliciously dark and gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife

A Twisted Love Story

The most addictive psychological thriller you’ll read this year

For Your Own Good

The gripping Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling psychological thriller

He Started It

My Lovely Wife

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We're calling it: My Lovely Wife is the most gripping psychological thriller of 2019... this book will keep you reading late into the night

One of my favourite thrillers of the year - I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end. Dark, chilling and compelling ... My Lovely Wife is a brilliant debut

TM Logan, bestselling author of The Holiday

Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense

Dexter meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year!

C.J. Tudor, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man

The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night. Clever. Manipulative. Dark. Disturbing. What more can you ask for?

Brilliant - I was enthralled by the premise and it totally delivered. Five star entertainment!

Dark, shocking and very witty, this wickedly good read will make you run screaming from the suburbs

We're calling it now: Samantha Downing's creepy, sexy debut thriller is going to be the next Gone Girl.

So beautifully and elegantly written . . . the ending is amazing and there is a great twist. I loved it.

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

I pretty much inhaled this twisty, audacious, Gone Girl-y psychological thriller. This is the book that everyone is going to be talking about this summer. I can't shut up about it!

Red, The best Spring crime novels and thrillers

A genuinely fresh take on the psychological thriller genre. Expect dark humour and more loop-the-loops than a roller coaster

My Lovely Wife is a knockout. It's an effortless page-turner

My Lovely Wife is dark, twisted-and impossible to put down. Samantha Downing has written a wickedly plotted and suspenseful psychological thriller

A fantastic foray into what we know-and what we do not-about those closest to us. Intricately plotted, fascinating characters - I loved it!

Domestic noir has rarely been darker . . . it's a psychological shocker

Utterly gripping . . . Expect more twists and turns than a bowl of spaghetti and block out a whole day to read this, because you won't want to sleep until you're done

This gripping page-turner offers a new take on the psychological thriller genre - the ideal beach read

Suspenseful, shocking thriller. Deliciously dark

Totally engrossing and I kept on thinking, one more chapter... an intelligent page-turner that makes you question everything

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....

I couldn't pull myself away from this story - a terrifying and riveting window into the mind of the perfect suburban mother with a taste for murder. Make sure you clear your schedule before you pick it up. Absolutely unputdownable

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!

Deliciously dark and twisted... It's a remarkable achievement, full stop.

A highly original and dark look at the shifting power structure in a modern marriage. . . A funny, smart book

Darkly witty and strangely plausible, it's a read-in-one-sitting firecracker of a thriller, laced with explosive twists

A marital, psychological thriller with darkly comedic undertones

This is a ringer of a yarn, shot through with enough tooth-clenching moments to make you have your dentist on speed dial

With a twisty plot that will leave you gasping, this deliciously dark thriller is on a par with Gone Girl

The gripping Richard & Judy thriller that will give you chills this winter

Every marriage has secrets. Everyone has flaws. Your wife isn't perfect - you know that - but then again nor are you. 
 
But now a serial killer is on the loose in your small town, preying on young women. Fear is driving your well-behaved young daughter off the rails, and you find yourself in bed late at night, looking at the woman who lies asleep beside you. 
 
Because you thought you knew the worst about her. The truth is you know nothing at all.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD &amp; JUDY PICK 
 
HOW WELL DO YOU REALLY KNOW THE PERSON YOU LOVE MOST? 
 
Their life was just like yours. Nice house, great kids, the perfect life. 
 
But they have a very dark secret. 
 
You might think you've read stories like this before. 
 
You're wrong. 
______________ 
 
SHORTLISTED FOR ITW THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL, THE EDGAR AWARD AND THE GOODREADS AWARDS. WINNER OF THE DEAD GOOD READER AWARDS. 
 
'The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night' Jane Corry, bestselling author of The Dead Ex 
 
'The most gripping psychological thriller of 2019' Stylist 
 
'The next Gone Girl' Marie Claire 
 
'A twisty, audacious, Gone Girl-y psychological thriller. The book that everyone is going to be talking about' Red 
 
'Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense' Harlan Coben 
 
'Dexter meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year' C.J. Tudor 
 
'Absolutely unputdownable' Liv Constantine

My Lovely Wife

The gripping Richard & Judy thriller that will give you chills this winter

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We're calling it: My Lovely Wife is the most gripping psychological thriller of 2019... this book will keep you reading late into the night

One of my favourite thrillers of the year - I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end. Dark, chilling and compelling ... My Lovely Wife is a brilliant debut

**Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner** - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense

***Dexter* meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted** novel. One of the best books I've read this year!

The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night. Clever. Manipulative. Dark. Disturbing. What more can you ask for?

Brilliant - I was enthralled by the premise and it totally delivered. Five star entertainment!

Dark, shocking and very witty, this wickedly good read will make you run screaming from the suburbs

We're calling it now: Samantha Downing's creepy, sexy debut thriller is going to be **the next Gone Girl.**

So beautifully and elegantly written . . . the ending is amazing and there is a great twist. I loved it.

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

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