The Perfect Wife - JP Delaney

Written by JP Delaney
Read by Saskia Maarleveld, Graham Halstead, Euan Morton, JP Delaney
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: August 6, 2019
Duration: 10:42:08

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 questioning 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 Abbie half a decade ago?
Beware the man who calls you . . .

“A twisty, completely original psychological thriller that grabs you from the start and doesn’t let go until the very end.”

“A tour de force . . . The Perfect Wife is a chilling and uniquely disturbing twenty-first-century twist on the unreliable narrator that makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking book. It asks troubling questions about selfhood and ’souls’ and what makes us human, and plays them out in a compelling psychological thriller.”

This compulsively readable psychological thriller from bestseller Delaney, a pseudonym of British adman Tony Strong, asks some provocative questions. Did Silicon Valley visionary Tim Scott, the founder of Scott Robotics, murder his wife, Abbie Cullen-Scott? Or did the free-spirited artist and devoted mother drown while surfing one night near their California beach house? …A woman sees someone who could be Abbie in a San Francisco computer store. When the woman asks this Abbie look-alike what happened, Abbie says she doesn’t remember. Though the woman is pleased to have confirmation that Tim didn’t kill Abbie, she calls the police to report that the missing celebrity has seemingly returned from the dead. The ensuing publicity has devastating consequences for the resurrected Abbie, eccentric genius Tim, and their now nine-year-old son, Danny. Delaney keeps the suspense high throughout. The highly unusual setup sets this one above the thriller pack.