Published by Corgi
Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller
Book Description:
Why would you run scared from a happy home?
You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work.
You're making dinner, looking forward to hearing about his day.
That's the last thing you remember.
You wake up in hospital, with no idea how you got there. They tell you that you were in an accident; you lost control of your car whilst driving in a dangerous part of town.
The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it. Your best friend isn't so sure. And even you don't know what to believe . . .
My Thoughts:
This book has been loitering on my TBR shelf some time and after a short discussion became the topic of a buddy read between my daughter and me. We're loving the storygraph app so we can throw ideas around as we read but without giving anything away to one another too soon.
Tom and Karen Krupp are happily married, have a lovely home and everything is going perfectly until Tom comes home one night to find the front door open, his wife's car gone and the dinner left mid-preparation on the kitchen counter. He's unsettled by her absence and alarm bells are ringing when 2 police officers show up to give him shocking news: his wife has been in a car accident and is in hospital. This is the point where Tom's life tilts on its axis and nothing is quite the same ever again.
Karen remembers nothing - so she says - and the neighbours can't help with any supporting information. Until it suits them. My daughter and I mulled over our various theories and weren't too far away with some of our guesses. As various snippets of information were drip fed over the chapters we slowly tweaked our ideas as the police officers worked with the evidence they had available to them until eventually the big reveal came towards the end. As is often the case in these stories, both parties in the marriage are withholding information from one another - it's up to you to decide whose secret is the worst - but both have far-reaching effects on their relationship. Neither of them seemed particularly horrible people at the start but it's surprising how quickly your opinion can change when given the background facts.
I found the majority of the plot fairly easy to work out and as an unchallenging read after a hard day at work it fitted the bill quite nicely. I'm not sure it will particularly stand out or stay with me for long but it ticked a box, which is what we all need occasionally and I have every intention of reading more by this author.
About the Author:
Shari Lapena (born 1960) is a Canadian novelist. She is best known for her 2016 thriller novel The Couple Next Door, which was a bestseller both in Canada and internationally.
Lapena, a lawyer and English teacher before beginning her writing career, published her debut novel Things Go Flying in 2008. That novel was a shortlisted Sunburst Award finalist in 2009. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a shortlisted Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012.
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