The Wife by Alafair Burke
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer.
For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother’s home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past.
Six years later, thanks to a bestselling book and a growing media career, Jason has become a cultural lightning rod, placing Angela near the spotlight she worked so carefully to avoid. When a college intern makes an accusation against Jason, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troubling allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel. Jason insists he is innocent, and Angela believes him. But when Kerry disappears, Angela is forced to take a closer look at the man she married.
And when she is asked to defend Jason in court, she realizes that her loyalty to her husband could unearth old secrets.
This is what I say :
Alafair Burke is a brilliant crime writer. I read The Wife soon after reading The Ex. While The Ex was so good that it brought me to read The Wife. The Wife is even better.
There are unexpected disclosure along the story-line that made the plot of The Wife extremely fresh.
Angela was initially painted as a boring housewife. Your opinion of her will change at the end of the book. She is not who you think she is.
I am so glad I rediscover the author. Let me see if I can get hold of her other titles.
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