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The Perfect Wife
The new thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before.
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This is going to be the buzziest book of 2017 . . . This year The Girl Before will be that book
I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Riveting! One of the most compelling page-turners I've read in years. Twisty, turny, and with an ending not to be missed!
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
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
Original and entertaining
A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
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
Creepy . . . The buzz around this could not be fizzier
The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels
A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
Constantly cranking up the suspense . . . a thoroughly satisfying read
Enthralling
A guaranteed best-seller
The most intriguing plot idea I've seen in a good while
Genuinely eerie . . . beautifully handled . . . the pages fly
Riveting . . . Writing with precision and grace, Delaney strips away the characters' secrets until the raw truth of each is revealed
A guaranteed best-seller
Original and brilliantly written
JP Delaney builds the suspense
Ingenious
The plotting is exceptionally well thought-through
A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . guaranteed to astonish
A crisp psychological thriller
The Girl Before is more than worthy of the accolades . . . a complex triangle of twisted obsession . . . say goodbye to your nails
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
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
One of the best thrillers you'll read in 2017
A completely original psychological thriller that grabs you and doesn't let go
Dynamic, razor-sharp and thought-provoking . . . The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before. A must read!
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
Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant
Scarily believable and utterly thought-provoking. I genuinely feared for Abbie and couldn't figure out who to trust in this unputdownable thriller
Compulsively readable . . . The highly unusual setup sets this one above the thriller pack
The narrative complexity, characterisation and gradual unravelling of the truth is a triumph of pacing and suspense
The kind of novel words like 'unputdownable' were invented for . . . Delaney pulls it off brilliantly, with an intoxicating knack for suspense . . . captivating, deeply engrossing
One of the most ingenious books you'll read this year... A thrilling examination of what it is to be human
An intriguing novel of ideas . . . plays with its themes (from AI and art to autism) just as absorbingly as recent literary fiction withsimilar preoccupations
Readers who liked Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson will enjoy The Perfect Wife
First-rate psychological suspense
Addictive
The twists are primed and deployed with a master craftsman's skill
