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For Your Own Good

For Your Own Good

RELEASED 19/08/2021

'Dark, sly and delicious...totally original - and totally compelling' JP Delaney, bestselling author of Playing Nice
'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' BA Paris

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Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy. Everyone thinks he's brilliant. Only you know the truth.

They all smile when he tells us his wife couldn't be more proud - though if they stopped to think, they would realise no-one has seen her in a while.

They're impressed when he doesn't let anything distract him - even the tragic death of a school parent. Even when the whispers start, saying it was murder.

You're sure Teddy is hiding something about what happened that day. You're sure you can prove it.

You just didn't stop to think that when it comes to catching a killer, there's no place more dangerous than just one step behind...

PRAISE FOR SAMANTHA DOWNING

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

'The next Gone Girl' Marie Claire

'The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night' Jane Corry

Reviews

  • Dark, sly and delicious...totally original - and totally compelling

    JP Delaney

  • I'm a huge fan of Samantha Downing, who is masterful at creating diabolical characters and deliciously chilling plots. An absolutely terrific book!

    Sarah Pekkanen

  • Samantha Downing serves up another cast of deliciously mendacious characters in an exclusive private school setting, where the deadly action drives a brilliantly tense, taut and twisty plot. I may never look at my coffee in the same way again

    Gilly Macmillan

  • Downing's spare prose packs a wallop as she deftly ratchets up the suspense with every hairpin turn of this lean, mean, surprising, and utterly propulsive thriller

    Lisa Unger

  • So dark and twisted, so deliciously evil, it'll not only make you frantically turn those pages to find out who's targeting whom, but the wry sense of humor will have you laughing out loud, too. Another phenomenal wild-ride of a read from one of the crime-writing community's most talent authors. Bet you'll never look at high school the same way again

    Hannah Mary McKinnon

  • Praise for Samantha Downing

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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

    Stylist

  • One of my favourite thrillers of the year - I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end. Dark, chilling and compelling

    TM Logan, bestselling author of The Holiday

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

    Harlan Coben

  • One of the best thrillers I've ever read

    Judy Finnigan

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About the Author

Samantha Downing

Samantha Downing was born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in New Orleans. Her debut novel, My Lovely Wife, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and a Sunday Times bestseller, and has been published in thirty languages. It won a Dead Good Reader Award, and was shortlisted for four other major awards: The CWA John Creasey Dagger, The Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and The Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. There will also be a forthcoming film adaptation, produced by Nicole Kidman. Her second novel, He Started It, was also a Sunday Times bestseller.

Samantha Downing

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