Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Woman Inside by E. G. Scott

A special thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Dutton for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Husband and wife, Rebecca and Paul, are both meant to be and a highly dangerous match.

Drawn together by their dark and painful pasts, the couple met when charismatic Paul was married. Now they are hitched, and after two decades, the relationship is failing just like Paul's contracting business. Rebecca however, is successful. She's a rep for a pharmaceutical company—a convenient job for someone with an opioid addiction.

But both of them are liars: Paul constantly lies about his cheating and womanizing, whereas Rebecca lies about how many drugs she is taking. Their relationship volleys between passion and paranoia—when you add to the mix a crazy mistress and a murder, it becomes the ultimate game of cat and mouse.

The Woman Inside is an explosive novel about secrets, lies, and revenge.

Told through multiple first-person narrators, this domestic thriller jumps between past and present. There are a few instances where the reader may be confused by the timeline towards the middle, but the narrative gets back on track for the last part where the authors ratchet up the suspense to a frenzied finish. The pace is partly why this book works—the whiplash speed does not leave the reader much time to ponder the plot issues. They will need to suspend their disbelief, and if they can, they will love this book.

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E. G. SCOTT is the pseudonym for two writers, Elizabeth Keenan and Greg Wands. The duo have been friends for over twenty years and have been writing plays, screenplays, and short fiction separately since childhood.

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