The Perfect Marriage
This updated edition of Jeneva Rose's debut thriller arrives with a full re-edit and a preview of the first three chapters of its forthcoming follow-up, The Perfect Divorce. It's a solid incentive to revisit the book that put Rose on the map as a New York Times bestselling author. Sarah Morgan is a criminal defence attorney at the top of her field in Washington, DC. She made named partner before thirty-five, her case record is spotless, and life has unfolded more or less according to plan. Her husband Adam, a writer whose career never quite took off, sees things rather differently. He's spent years watching Sarah's star rise while quietly blaming her ambition for the distance between them. His response to that resentment has been an affair, conducted in secret for nearly two years, with a woman named Kelly Summers. Then Kelly's body turns up at the couple's lake house, Adam is arrested on suspicion of murder, and Sarah is suddenly staring down the most complicated case of her career. She chooses to defend him. That decision alone raises more questions than it answers. Adam was unfaithful. That much is certain. But infidelity and murder are very different charges, and the novel takes its time pulling the two apart. Rose keeps the tension wound tightly throughout, and the central question, whether Sarah is defending an innocent man or simply a guilty one who hasn't been caught yet, lingers in a satisfyingly uncomfortable way right to the end.
- Author: Jeneva Rose
- Publisher: Corner Star Press
- Genre: True Crime
- ISBN: B0DP3NLRM9
- Pages: 368 pages