The Perfect Wife - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038569072X ISBN 13: 9780385690720

Synopsis

National Bestseller

The Perfect Life.
The Perfect Love.
The Perfect Lie.

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 her half a decade ago?

Beware the man who calls you . . . the perfect wife. National Bestseller

"Mind-bending. . . . Delaney takes domestic suspense beyond its comfort zone. To be sure, there's romantic tension, marital discord, even betrayal. . . . But there are other issues to chew on: the worship of beauty and the demand for perfection, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the moral responsibilities of playing God. Not to mention the quandary that arises when a robot develops a soul, a real problem when 'people don't want their robots to have feelings.'" —The New York Times

"The premise of [The Perfect Wife] itself is tricky at best, but Delaney pulls it off brilliantly, with an intoxicating knack for suspense. This is the kind of novel ugly words like 'unputdownable' were invented for. . . . Everything about The Perfect Wife feels earned and satisfying. Thrillers, after all, are more about the journey than they are about the destination—and this journey is a captivating, deeply engrossing one." —The Independent   

"A totally ingenious thriller with a killer premise that explores how far we will go for love—and the dangerous power of obsession." —T. M. Logan, author of Lies
 
"JP Delaney has outdone himself with his latest dynamic, razor-sharp and thought-provoking thriller.  The Perfect Wife is a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you've read before. A must read!" —Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
 
"A twisty, completely original psychological thriller that grabs you from the start and doesn't let go until the very end." —Karen Cleveland, New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know
 
"Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant. Speculative fiction mixed up with a mind-bendingly twisty psycho thriller! I devoured it." —C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man
 
"A tour-de-force. A chilling and uniquely disturbing 21st-century twist on the unreliable narrator makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller. The Perfect Wife asks troubling questions about selfhood and 'souls' and what makes us human, and plays them out in a compelling way." —Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home

"[A] compulsively readable psychological thriller" —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"[A] fresh take on the domestic thriller." —Booklist

"JP Delaney's third psychological thriller, The Perfect Wife, puts—almost perfectly—a high-tech spin on the stories of Frankenstein and Pygmalion with a tinge of the Stepford wives. . . . The intriguing plot leads to a chilling and surprising finale that perfectly caps The Perfect Wife." —Associated Press

Praise for Believe Me

"Compelling. . . . [A] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme." —Booklist, starred review
 
"The author produces a bobsled run's worth of twists." —Publishers Weekly

"An intense, stylish psychological thriller." —Good Housekeeping

Praise for The Girl Before

"Dazzling, startling and above all cunning—a pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense." —Lee Child

"[JP] Delaney intersperses ethics questions on stand-alone pages throughout the book. . . . The single most ingenious touch is that we're not provided either woman’s answers." —The New York Times

"The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels." —The Washington Post 

"A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . * to astonish." —Booklist, starred review

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038569072X
• ISBN 13: 9780385690720
• Binding: Paperback