Samantha Downing was born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in
New Orleans. 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. It won a Dead Good Reader Award, and
was shortlisted for four other major awards: The CWA John Creasey
Dagger, The Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The ITW Thriller
Award for Best First Novel and The Macavity Award for Best First
Mystery. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have
partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel.
Her second novel, He Started It, was also a Sunday Times bestseller
and her third novel, For Your Own Good, will soon be adapted for
HBO Max by Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti.
We're calling it: My Lovely Wife is the most gripping psychological
thriller of 2019... this book will keep you reading late into the
night
*Stylist*
One of my favourite thrillers of the year - I couldn't stop reading
but didn't want it to end. Dark, chilling and compelling ... My
Lovely Wife is a brilliant debut
Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn
characters, and riveting suspense
Dexter meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and
twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year!
The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the
night. Clever. Manipulative. Dark. Disturbing. What more can you
ask for?
Brilliant - I was enthralled by the premise and it totally
delivered. Five star entertainment!
Dark, shocking and very witty, this wickedly good read will make
you run screaming from the suburbs
*Heat*
We're calling it now: Samantha Downing's creepy, sexy debut
thriller is going to be the next Gone Girl.
*Marie Claire*
So beautifully and elegantly written . . . the ending is amazing
and there is a great twist. I loved it.
*Sophie Hannah*
An assured and deliciously engrossing debut. You'll surely devour
My Lovely Wife, but it will linger long after you've reached the
last page
I pretty much inhaled this twisty, audacious, Gone Girl-y
psychological thriller. This is the book that everyone is going to
be talking about this summer. I can't shut up about it!
*Red, The best Spring crime novels and thrillers*
A genuinely fresh take on the psychological thriller genre. Expect
dark humour and more loop-the-loops than a roller coaster
*Good Housekeeping*
A dark and irresistible debut
*People*
My Lovely Wife is a knockout. It's an effortless page-turner
*Publishers Weekly*
My Lovely Wife is dark, twisted-and impossible to put down.
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. Intricately plotted, fascinating characters - I
loved it!
Domestic noir has rarely been darker . . . it's a psychological
shocker
*i*
Utterly gripping . . . Expect more twists and turns than a bowl of
spaghetti and block out a whole day to read this, because you won't
want to sleep until you're done
*Red Online*
This gripping page-turner offers a new take on the psychological
thriller genre - the ideal beach read
*Evening Standard*
A dark and clever debut thriller
*Prima*
Suspenseful, shocking thriller. Deliciously dark
*Best*
Totally engrossing and I kept on thinking, one more chapter... an
intelligent page-turner that makes you question everything
Truly horrifying in the most delicious way. Samantha Downing sucks
you in with a great story, pitch-perfect prose and disturbingly
dead-on insights into the dark side of human nature. I hope I never
meet her in a dark alley....
I couldn't pull myself away from this story - a terrifying and
riveting window into the mind of the perfect suburban mother with a
taste for murder. Make sure you clear your schedule before you pick
it up. Absolutely unputdownable
It's no mean feat to find something fresh in the crowded thriller
field, but Downing pulls off an indisputable triumph with My Lovely
Wife. Exemplary writing and outstanding pacing confirm Downing's
talent, but it's her deliciously depraved characters that kept me
flying through the pages. Couldn't get enough of this subversive
love-gone-sideways tale!
Deliciously dark and twisted... It's a remarkable achievement, full
stop.
*Shelf Awareness*
Best new books to read this March
*Cosmopolitan*
A highly original and dark look at the shifting power structure in
a modern marriage. . . A funny, smart book
*Daily Mail*
Darkly witty and strangely plausible, it's a read-in-one-sitting
firecracker of a thriller, laced with explosive twists
*The People*
A marital, psychological thriller with darkly comedic
undertones
*The Wrap*
Bold and brilliant
*Big Issue*
This is a ringer of a yarn, shot through with enough
tooth-clenching moments to make you have your dentist on speed
dial
*Connaught Telegraph*
With a twisty plot that will leave you gasping, this deliciously
dark thriller is on a par with Gone Girl
*That's Life Monthly*
One of the best thrillers I've ever read
*Judy Finnigan*
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