Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth….
With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.
Thoughts: Darby Kane’s debut thriller is everything that you want in a thriller. A page turning, keep you on the seat of your pants, holy crap didn’t see that coming, where did that twist come from.
This is a book that you can’t put down. I listened to it on audiobook and while it took me a bit to get used to the narrator the story soon had me completely sucked in. I found myself sitting in my car in the parking lot at school, closing my classroom door and turning it on during my plan period.
The cast of characters is small, Lila, her missing husband, her brother in law, the nosy neighbor, her missing husbands best friend, the cop who knows there’s more going on then she can prove, her partner, a professor, and a true crime podcast.
From the first page to the last page you never know what is going to happen nor who the murderer is nor where the missing husband is.
Pretty Little Wife is one of the best thriller’s I’ve read and I can’t wait to see what Kane does next. If this book is anything to go by it will be another excellent page turning thriller.
Grade A
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