Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane #bookreview #thriller #suspense
Title: Pretty Little Wife
Author: Darby Kane
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication Date: December 29, 2020
Page Count: 407
My rating: 4 stars
About the book:
Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead?
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.
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane is a thriller novel. The story in this one is told with a few time jumps here and there and also with changing the point of view between characters. There is also a podcast involved in the story that is focusing on the disappearances.
Lila Ridgefield is the wife of a popular teacher, Aaron, in their idyllic little college town but Lila knows her husband has secrets. Lila finds sextape featuring her husband and knows that this is all that she can take. Lila plans what she thinks will be the perfect murder leaving his body near the school with his explicit sex tapes to be discovered. Except Aaron is not found. Now everyone is focused on yet another disappearance in the small town, that is except his wife who was sure she had killed him.
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane was the type of read I was immediately intrigued with and quickly settled in to devour the story. Lila is an unreliable narrator and not particularly likable but still engaging to follow. This one was easy to follow despite jumping around a bit in time and had plenty of twists and turns along the way to keep my attention. I would also never had guessed it to be a debut novel and would definitely pick up something by this author again in the future.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.
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Carries Book Reviews 
Excellent review Carrie. Adding this to my library list. ❤📚
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Thanks Sandy! Hope you enjoy it too if you get the chance to read it!😃
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This sounds really interesting, Carrie. I like the mystery of the disappearing body. I had not heard of this book, but I am definitely adding it. I like that it is a debut for the author as well, get in on the ground floor. 😀
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Oh me too, I don’t know why some people steer clear of debut authors because some of the established authors start to feel repetitive sometimes.
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Definitely agree with you there.
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