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The Lover

By: Helene Flood, Alison McCullough - translator
Narrated by: Emily Joyce
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How can you hide your affair when your lover's been murdered? From the author of The Therapist, a gripping story of secrets, lies, extramarital affairs and murder.

Is it worse to lie to your husband or the police?

Rikke is deceiving them both. When their upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found dead, she's questioned alongside her husband Åsmund.

How can Rikke admit in front of Åsmund that Jørgen and she were having an affair? Or explain to the police the complexity of her feelings for Jørgen? The hint of relief that he's dead. And, as the investigation closes in on the neighbourhood, how long can she conceal the affair from her neighbours, her husband and her teenage daughter?

Rikke knows she can't hide the phone calls, emails and messages from the police. So she cuts herself a deal. In return for a few days' grace to tell Åsmund before anyone else does, she'll share everything about the affair.

But before she can summon the courage to confess, Rikke is struck by a chilling revelation. Jørgen can only have been killed by someone living in their small apartment building.

©2022 Helene Flood (P)2022 Quercus Editions Limited
City Life Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Urban Domestic Thrillers Murder Mystery Thriller & Suspense Crime Suspense Thriller Fiction Psychological Marriage
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The narrator does a nice job, but the story is a non-starter. Hour after hour of this woman trying to hide then justify her extramarital affair. It's a slog. I don't even care who the murderer is. I'm just glad it is over.

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