The Innocent Wife

You can hear the ominous music from the first line onward - this is a fantastic thriller.

Lee Child

Gripping psychological suspense from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction, and one of 2018's must-reads!

from the publisher's description

If you're an addict of true crime documentaries, you will binge all night on The Innocent Wife. In this breathless, pounding ride, Amy Lloyd keeps us guessing about a convicted killer thrust into the world as innocent online hero and the woman who begins to reluctantly dig into his murky past.

Julia Heaberlin, author of Black Eyed Susans

The Innocent Wife is a stunner that leads the reader down a twisty path to a surprising, yet satisfying conclusion. You won't be able to stop turning the pages!

Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter

I devoured The Innocent Wife in one sitting! A unique setting, deeply flawed characters, a crackling mystery, and an unexpected ending make this one of 2018's must-reads!

Hollie Overton, author of Baby Doll

Good, fast paced and well written.

reader review

Absolutely brilliantly written, characters are well-drawn and believable and I cannot recommend it enough.

reader review

The Innocent Wife is a brilliant read. I was hooked from the start and read in within a couple of days. I loved how much depth there was to each character making you are the reader feel you really knew them. I cannot wait to read more from Amy Lloyd, I believe she will be an author to watch.

reader review

Ever since I learned about women who write to, fall in love with and marry men on Death Row, I've been fascinated by this phenomenon, so this book was a must-read. Lloyd keeps the first three-quarters or so beautifully on track as Samantha obsesses about a handsome killer, gets involved in the campaign to free him and marries him, despite him being effectively a stranger. Alongside this main story is a sub-strand which calls into question Samantha's own past behaviour and quite how balanced she herself is. This keeps the tension high and I changed my mind a couple of times as to where I thought the book was going, and ended up staying up late to find out whether I was right (sort of!)

reader review

I read The Innocent Wife in one sitting - a deliciously wry and dark exploration of fascinating subject matter that will keep you guessing until the last page. Amy Lloyd is a fresh and original new voice in thriller writing who deserves to go straight to the top.

Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes

Written with panache, the book skilfully captures the nature of obsession and its consequences, and culminates in a climax Patricia Highsmith would have admired.

Daily Mail

Deliciously tense and twisty.

The Sunday Times

Slick, smart and very timely, this confident debut will hook you in.

Sunday Mirror

Exquisitely subtle

Fully Booked

What a gripping, chilling book!

Words from a Reader blog

Deeply unsettling

The i

A talent for nail-biting fiction

Irish Independent

A grim and unbearably tense debut chiller with an unexpected and utterly fitting finale.

Kirkus Reviews

A compulsively readable thriller.

Booklist (Starred review)

I’m gripped

YOU Magazine online

Fans of Gone Girl, Serial and Making a Murderer will not be able to put this book down. I promise you all that!

Let's Start With This One Blog

Looking for a brand new author? Brit @amylloydwrites won the Daily Mail’s first novel contest with The Innocent Wife. Woman marries a man on death row. Then things get scary. Ending a total shock. Superb psychological suspense.

Lisa Gardner, author of Find Her and Right Behind You

A must read

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