Domestic drama and psychological fiction centered on a woman who has a mid-life affair with her boss and turns up to his pied-a-terre one day to find him murdered. What is this cheating woman to do? She didn't kill him but she surely doesn't want anyone to find out her secrets and lies.
Neve Connolly is 46 years-old, married to Fletcher, with 3 children -- one of whom may or may not be heading out to university in a couple of weeks. She and her husband have been married 20 long years and "her affair with Saul Stevenson was just the fever dream of a woman in her forties who had grown weary of the slog of family life." When she finds his body, head bashed in with a hammer, she can't call it in and so she scrupulously cleans the place and removes every trace of her presence. Now she needs to act surprised when the death is discovered and it becomes common knowledge at the office. Meanwhile, Neve is frantic -- who killed Saul and what might the enigmatic investigator, DCI Alastair Hitching be able to figure out. NO SPOILERS.
This was entertaining but a bit unbelievable as far as the investigative elements as it seemed that the police would have been able to figure out what went on in the flat. None of the characters were really very likeable, and Neve didn't elicit the empathy I usually like to have with a protagonist. The writing was good and the narrative moves along with lots of drama, but the ending seemed somewhat drawn out though the conclusion was quite predictable. I haven't read many other books by this author and may give the Frieda Klein novels a look.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Publishers for the e-book ARC to read and review.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre -- domestic drama, psychological fiction, murder
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