MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Crime Fiction with Mat Coward: January 18, 2022
New titles from Seraphina Nova Glass, Hansjorg Schneider, Chris Nickson and Liza Cody
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MEL lives in a well-to-do Louisiana town, in Such A Good Wife by Seraphina Nova Glass (Titan, £8.99), with her kids, a fine husband and a nice house. She’s not exactly happy, but aware that she has nothing much to be unhappy about, so she shocks herself when she begins an affair with a local author after a writers’ group meeting.
She’s even more shocked to discover hidden within her a woman who is skilled at planning, executing and concealing deceit. When she’s caught up on the edges of a suspicious death, she begins to question whether there is anything she would be incapable of doing to get herself and her family out of danger.
You really won’t be able to put this down; it’s a tense thriller of personality rather than events.
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