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The Perfect Wife

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6th August 2019

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781786488541

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‘Seriously brilliant’ CJ Tudor
‘Chilling and compulsive’ Cara Hunter

“There’s something I have to explain, my love,” he says, taking your hand in his. “That wasn’t a dream. It was an upload.”

Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. By her side is her husband Tim, the driven British founder of one of the world’s most ground-breaking tech companies. They met when she joined his startup as artist-in-residence, their marriage a Silicon Valley fairy tale.

But as Abbie’s memories return, she realises there’s something missing from Tim’s version of events. Because, five years ago, Abbie Cullen-Scott was pronounced dead . . .

Readers love The Perfect Wife

‘Absolutely mind-blowing’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Could not put this book down!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Fabulous twists and turns’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘One of my favourite authors’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers:

‘DAZZLING’ Lee Child
‘ADDICTIVE’ Daily Express
‘DEVASTATING’ Daily Mail
‘INGENIOUS’ New York Times
‘COMPULSIVE’ Glamour Magazine
‘ELEGANT’ Peter James
‘SEXY’ Mail on Sunday
‘ENTHRALLING’ Woman and Home
‘ORIGINAL’ The Times
‘RIVETING’ Lisa Gardner
‘CREEPY’ Heat
‘SATISFYING’ Reader’s Digest
‘SUPERIOR’ The Bookseller
‘MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS’ Sunday Times

Reviews

Booklist
A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . guaranteed to astonish
The Times
Original and entertaining
InStyle
This is going to be the buzziest book of 2017 . . . This year The Girl Before will be that book
Peter James for Big Issue North
A great thriller and one that instantly hooks you in, in the very first line, and never lets you go . . . utterly compelling and very satisfying . . . A wonderful portrayal of psychological obsession at its creepy best
Boundless Magazine
The Girl Before is more than worthy of the accolades . . . a complex triangle of twisted obsession . . . say goodbye to your nails
Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl
Dynamic, razor-sharp and thought-provoking . . . The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before. A must read!
Cosmopolitan
Get hooked on this hair-raiser about a woman who scores what seems like her dream home . . . until she finds out the mysterious fate of the previous tenant
Red Magazine
A guaranteed best-seller
Mail on Sunday
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
Heat
Creepy . . . The buzz around this could not be fizzier
CJ Tudor, author of The Chalk Man
Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant
Vanity Fair
JP Delaney builds the suspense
Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home
A tour-de-force. A chilling and uniquely disturbing 21st-century twist on the unreliable narrator makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller
Independent
The kind of novel words like 'unputdownable' were invented for . . . Delaney pulls it off brilliantly, with an intoxicating knack for suspense . . . captivating, deeply engrossing
Observer
Readers who liked Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson will enjoy The Perfect Wife
Lee Child
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Woman and Home
Enthralling
The Sun
Original and brilliantly written
Publishers Weekly
Compulsively readable . . . The highly unusual setup sets this one above the thriller pack
Sunday Express
The twists are primed and deployed with a master craftsman's skill
Observer
First-rate psychological suspense
Reader's Digest
Constantly cranking up the suspense . . . a thoroughly satisfying read
Glamour Magazine Online
A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
Joseph Finder
The Girl Before is a cat-and-mouse game that toys with our expectations and twists our sympathies. At times almost unbearably suspenseful, it keeps us guessing from the first page to the very last. Don't miss it
Woman
Addictive
The Washington Post
The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels
The Spectator
The most intriguing plot idea I've seen in a good while
Daily Express
A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
New York Journal of Books
One of the best thrillers you'll read in 2017
Daily Mail
The tension is built up subtly, leading to a devastating climax. A really clever thriller . . . [the film] will no doubt become the third big 'Girl' film
Irish Independent
The plotting is exceptionally well thought-through
Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect Girlfriend
Scarily believable and utterly thought-provoking. I genuinely feared for Abbie and couldn't figure out who to trust in this unputdownable thriller
Daily Mail
One of the most ingenious books you'll read this year... A thrilling examination of what it is to be human
Lisa Gardner
Riveting! One of the most compelling page-turners I've read in years. Twisty, turny, and with an ending not to be missed!
Karen Cleveland, author of Need to Know
A completely original psychological thriller that grabs you and doesn't let go
Sainsbury's Magazine
A crisp psychological thriller
Peter James
I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
Woman & Home
The narrative complexity, characterisation and gradual unravelling of the truth is a triumph of pacing and suspense
Sunday Times
An intriguing novel of ideas . . . plays with its themes (from AI and art to autism) just as absorbingly as recent literary fiction withsimilar preoccupations
Prima
A guaranteed best-seller
Publishers Weekly
Riveting . . . Writing with precision and grace, Delaney strips away the characters' secrets until the raw truth of each is revealed
USA Today
Genuinely eerie . . . beautifully handled . . . the pages fly
The New York Times
Ingenious