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The Lover

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What to expect

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.

Translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough

(P) 2022 Quercus Editions Ltd

Critics Review

An absolutely prime slice of Scandicrime . . . the writer channels her professional expertise into a noteworthy domestic thriller
FT
Having hit a bull's-eye with . . . The Therapist . . . Helene Flood repeats the trick with another twisty tale of domestic goings-on . . . teasing and pleasing the reader till the very last page
Sunday Times Crime Club
The joy of the book is the vivid variety of characters, and the cynicism with which Flood dissects the sad illusions of married life
A.N. Wilson
Author Helene Flood
Narrator Emily Joyce
Duration 11 hours and 59 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529406153
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Psychological thriller
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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