Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Eight sketchy-spouse domestic thrillers

Andrew DeYoung is the author of The Temps, a speculative novel about the end of the world.

He works as an editor at a childrens book publishing company, and he lives with his wife and two children in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota.

The Day He Never Came Home is his first domestic thriller.

At CrimeReads DeYoung tagged eight
fantastic “Who the F did I marry?” books for you to enjoy, if you, like me, can’t look away from the slow-moving trainwreck of someone finding out the complicated, occasionally ugly truth about the person they married.
One novel on the list:
The Wife Before, by Shanora Williams

“He is not the man I assumed he was…”

A prolific writer of both thrillers and romance, Shanora Williams delivers the perfect “Who the F did I marry?” book in The Wife Before. She captures not just the fear of realizing your spouse might not be who you thought they were, but also the fairy tale romance that might lead a person to marry someone they don’t know very well in the first place. Here, it’s Samira falling quickly for Roland, a professional golfer who seems like the perfect man to help her get some direction in her life. But when she moves into his secluded home and discovers diary entries written by Roland’s previous wife, Samira realizes her husband might not be who she believes him to be—and that she might be in danger.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue