Follow Me
Aimee Molloy’s Goodnight Beautiful is a thriller I read in one evening. Part homage to Stephen King (and that’s all I will say because I don’t want to accidentally spoil anything), it is packed with twists and turns.
From the Publisher’s Summary:
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.
It’s hard to say a lot about this one without giving away some of the parts that made it fun to read. It uses some of the current tropes in thrillers- unreliable narrators, for example- but in unexpected was that add to the suspense and what you think you know is going to happen.
The story grabbed me from page one, and I enjoyed finding out all the twists. This is one where I definitely did not see everything coming and have it all figured out ahead of time. Exactly what I like in a thriller. So if you, too, are a thriller fan, put this one on your list