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by JP Delaney
The perfect life. The perfect love. The perfect lie. From the bestselling author of The Girl Before comes a gripping psychological thriller... .
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss.
She is a miracle of science.
But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins to question her husband's motives—and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to her, half a decade ago?
Beware the man who calls you ...
The Perfect Wife
"This compulsively readable psychological thriller ... asks some provocative questions... . Delaney keeps the suspense high throughout. The highly unusual setup sets this one above the thriller pack." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Readers ... will be rewarded with a fresh take on the domestic thriller that will leave them satisfied." —Booklist
"The Perfect Wife blew my mind! What a wonderful and unique thriller. I haven't been able to put it down since it arrived, and now that I've finished I can't stop thinking about it! Those last lines ... wow! JP Delaney has outdone himself with his latest dynamic, razor-sharp, and thought-provoking thriller. The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before... . A must-read!" —Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
"Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant ... speculative fiction mixed up with a mind-bendingly twisty psycho thriller! I devoured it." —C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before and Believe Me, JP Delaney has previously written fiction under other names.
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