MYSTERY

Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney
Flatiron. Jan. 2025. 320p. ISBN 9781250337788. $28.99. SUSPENSE
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Eager to give his wife, Abby, the exciting news that he’s just made the New York Times bestseller list, Grady Green calls her while she’s driving. She tells him she sees a woman lying in the road; he urges her to stay in the car, but she does not heed his warning. The police later find Abby’s car with the door open and her phone on the seat, but no one is inside. As the days and weeks pile up, Grady is no longer able to write, such is his grief and worry over his missing wife. Then Grady’s literary agent, a longtime friend of the couple, suggests he visit her cabin on a Scottish island. It’s remote, beautiful, and a good place to recover and write again. The island is idyllic, the cabin quaint, but Grady keeps seeing Abby’s ghost. The longer he stays, the more foreboding it becomes.
VERDICT Feeney (Rock Paper Scissors) pens another superb domestic psychological thriller with plenty of twists, as her readers have come to expect. Demand will be high.
Reviewed by Cynthia Price , Dec 13, 2024
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