Til Death Do Us Part

 

Well that was unexpected!

I love a book that takes you on a journey where you think you know all the familiar landmarks and directions it’s going to take along the way, only to find out in the end that you’ve ended up in an entirely different place.

This is my first book from prolific author Daniel Hurst, and it didn’t disappoint.  

Craig and Megan live in a remote countryside home outside London.  He’s a bank manager who provides for his wife so that she can enjoy the fruits of his labor and not work. That’s how he likes it, at least. Megan, though, is missing the city life, work and friends she had before. She’s hoping Craig will come around to her point of view after she tells him she’s been putting in applications. He’s confident nothing will come of it until a job recruiter named Sally enters the picture and now things are getting real.

That won’t do for Craig at all. He’s been tracking Megan’s every move on her phone and laptop for quite some time, and he knows that despite saying she wouldn’t attend the interview with Sally, she did anyway. No … he’s going to have to intervene, and she’s NOT going to like it. She’s about to find out that she’s not the only one who’s been keeping secrets.

Is her loving, supportive husband actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing? 

I hate the “every man is evil” trope that’s so popular these days, but Hurst wrote a character so vile to me that my fantasies about what would happen with him may have gotten just a little carried away. I think words like “gutterpig” and “festering pile of man garbage” MAY have entered my mind once or twice. 😏

This is definitely a “whole picture” kind of book. Some things are exactly as you see them, and some things aren’t, but the ending was everything!  I listened to this on audiobook narrated by Gareth Bennett-Ryan and Francesca Waite, both of whom did a fantastic job and kept me enthralled with every twist and turn.  I’ll definitely be watching for more from this author!

★★★★ ½