California, the 1960s: three women share pool parties, neighbourhood gossip and one fact none of them says out loud, which is that each is married to a notorious serial killer.
Beverley, Elsie and Margot have built a friendship out of the single thing that isolates them from everyone else. The novel stays with the women rather than the men, following their attempts to construct independent lives under constant suspicion and pointed attention. When fresh killings reach the local news, the three find themselves running an investigation of their own, on the reasoning that nobody understands a killer better than the woman who lived with one. Period detail, heat and social pressure do much of the work.
What buyers should know:
• A period crime novel set against 1960s Californian suburbia
• Told from the perspective of the wives rather than the perpetrators
• Combines domestic drama with an amateur murder investigation
• Reads as a standalone, with no series commitment
Well suited to readers of atmospheric crime fiction and feminist thrillers, offered by Boipoka.
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