Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter have left Manhattan to start their life together in Sam’s hometown in upstate New York to be closer to his ailing mother. Annie spends most of her days alone while Sam is working long hours seeing his (mostly female) patients—his practice is booming after an article about the handsome therapist runs in the local paper. Little does Sam know that there is a vent in the ceiling of his downstairs office and every word of his sessions can be heard from the room directly above. Who could resist listening?
After a few weeks, Sam disappears. But since there is no indication of foul play, the police aren’t taking it seriously, especially after being tipped off about the debt he’s in and that he may be having an affair with one of his patients. Sam’s disappearance has turned Annie’s world on its head and she wonders if she truly knows her husband after all.
Goodnight Beautiful is a gripping and insidious psychological thriller. Molloy is a master at misdirection. She plays on perceptions and assumptions and then completely flips the narrative on its head. There were two HUGE plot twists that completely blindsided me, as in left me totally gobsmacked—one of which I actually stopped listening, backed it up, and listened again.
In a genre saturated with unreliable female narrators who are seen as crazy, this high-concept book is fresh and startling.
AIMEE MOLLOY is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Mother, which has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Molloy lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.
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