Goodnight Beautiful
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.6
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Aimee Molloy
A Most Anticipated Book by: Crime Reads, Buzzfeed, Popsugar, Bustle, New York Post From "master of clever misdirection" (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing. A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent ... You'd listen too, wouldn't you? (You know you would.) Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after. Showcasing Molloy's deft ability to subvert norms and culminating in the kind of stunning twist that is becoming her trademark, Goodnight Beautiful is a thrilling tale of domestic suspense that not only questions assumptions but defies expectations.
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Author
Aimee Molloy
Pages
384
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Date
2020
ISBN
0063000148 9780063000148
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"Rating: 11/10. Recommended by a friend if you liked verity. Sick and twisted and sooo good. I finished it within 4 days while being busy. The plot was perfection and it’s separated into 3 parts and after each you had to pause bc everything you thought from what you just read was all wrong. Definitely in the top 3 from what I’ve read this summer."
"Whoa.<br/><br/>First off, this book is... a lot more than it seems on the surface. The summary is, well, misleading to say the least. I expected a woman eavesdropping on her husband's therapy patients and figuring out some juicy secrets... It wasn't that at all. What it was was so much better! It's best if you go into this blind, so I'll leave out a more accurate summary and just say if you like domestic thrillers a la Greer Hendricks/Sarah Pekkanen, this is a must read! (It also helps if you're familiar with Stephen King's "Misery".)<br/><br/>I will say that the ending was a little bit disappointing. I was hoping for one last twist that just didn't come, so I was a little bummed out about that, but the TWISTS and the TURNS in the first half are EXPERTLY crafted. Sometimes I wonder how I can still get blindsided by thrillers when I've read so many of them, but it still happens. The feeling when you realize that everything you thought you knew is wrong is a high that keeps me devouring thriller after thriller, and Goodnight Beautiful was no exception."