Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary. EXCLUSIVE: Julia Hart is set to direct an adaptation of the 2019 Samantha Downing novel My Lovely Wife at Netflix. its a psychological shocker Utterly gripping. Samantha Downing has written a wickedly plotted and suspenseful psychological thriller A fantastic foray into what we know-and what we do not-about those closest to us. Readers will eagerly await Downing’s next thriller. My Lovely Wife is dark, twisted-and impossible to put down. The first-person, present-tense narration makes readers feel uncomfortably complicit in all that transpires, underscoring the plot’s grim and twisted nature. Downing’s tale unfolds slowly and sinuously, building tension about the couples’ fate while revealing the origins of their homicidal hobby. Millicent’s husband initially relishes the idea of a suspicion-free killing spree, but quickly learns that resurrecting the local bogeyman has consequences.

to match that of Owen Oliver Riley, a notorious local serial killer who escaped conviction. Millicent was supposed to have immediately killed and dumped Lindsay in a swamp, but she now claims that in order to distract the authorities, she changed their m.o. This revelation shocks the book’s 39-year-old unnamed narrator, since he and his wife, Millicent, were the ones who abducted Lindsay as part of a ploy to spice up their marriage. Her debut novel, My Lovely Wife, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and a Sunday Times bestseller, and has been published in thirty languages. Police identify the victim as Lindsay, a young woman who went missing a year earlier and was apparently held captive for months before being strangled. Samantha Downing was born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in New Orleans. The discovery of a corpse in an abandoned Woodview, Fla., motel kick-starts Downing’s taut debut.

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