Published by Bookouture
Publication Date: 27th November 2020
Mystery & Thrillers
Book Description:
“Thank you,” I say sweetly when she tells me I’m lucky to have such a beautiful family. But I want to tell her it’s not just luck. A family is like a fortress you have to defend all the time. You can’t relax because there’s always someone looking for a breach, always someone trying to get in. Someone just like her…
When I arrive unannounced at my husband’s studio in need of a shoulder to cry on after hearing that my best student, Alex, has died, I see a pair of wineglasses drying by the sink and my deepest fear is confirmed: my husband is having an affair.
Most women would fall to their knees in tears and throw him out of the house—but I just can’t bring myself to do it.
Instead, I go home and cook a healthy dinner for our children, walk the dog and unload the dishwasher without complaint. I will make him see that I’m still the woman he married; attractive, successful, the glue that holds our perfect family together. I need this marriage to work to protect a terrible secret of my own, something that would destroy everything I’ve already sacrificed so much for.
But when the police arrive at my door asking questions about Alex’s death that I can’t answer, and threatening text messages start appearing on my phone, I know that someone close has been watching me very carefully.
The truth is, there are three people in my marriage, but only one of them is deadly…
My Thoughts:
My thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.
If ever there's a character who likes to make life difficult for themselves it's the maths professor who takes the lead role in 'Unfaithful'. The way the story sets off you will be horrified by her actions. But this is just the start of the story. Then you come to realise that, despite the huge secret she's keeping, other people also aren't particularly on her side. But it will all be okay when the project she's been working on comes to fruition - won't it?
Every aspect of her life gradually begins to look like they are going to implode, then the police come asking questions the situation begins to look like it can't get any worse.
I did wonder at first whether this book would hold my interest as it seemed to be based around a maths problem which I had no understanding of but the focus broadened as the story went along and the plot had me well and truly hooked.
More and more revelations come out and some cracking twists in the storyline bring the story to a brilliant climax.
There are some very unlikeable characters throughout the book - in fact I can't think of a single nice person in the whole thing. But therein lies the skill of the author that you will love to hate every single one of them!About the Author:
Natalie Barelli can usually be found reading a book, and that book will more likely than not be a psychological thriller. When not absorbed in the latest gripping page-turner, Natalie loves cooking, enjoys riding her Vespa around town and otherwise spends far too much time at the computer. She lives in Australia, with her family.
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