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The Happy Couple
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Me and Will. Will and Me. A perfect match. He said he would always be there for me, but it’s been a year since he drained his coffee, walked out the front door and vanished.
Did he leave me? Or did something terrible happen? I’m scared someone finally found out about what happened on the drive home that night...
I lie awake at night trawling the internet for rental properties, desperate for an escape. Until I see my husband’s gorgeous face smiling back at me from a photograph on the fireplace in someone else’s home, and something inside of me snaps.
At the house, I find no trace of him and the woman who lives there has no idea who I am. But I’m certain she’s hiding something behind the locked door upstairs. I know that if I want answers, I have to stay.
You might think that what’s inside that room is the answer to all my questions and the end of all my pain. But it’s only the beginning…
Nail-biting and completely gripping, The Happy Couple will make you question how well you really know the ones you love. Perfect listening for anyone who adored The Wife Between Us, The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl.
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- Rachel Roberts
- 12-09-20
intriguing with a shock reveal at the end
loved the stories twist and turns shock ending a must read super author samatha Hayes
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- Kaja Sviland
- 23-06-20
Collapses at the end
This book will trick you into thinking it has a good storyline, and then dissepoint profoundly in the end. Dont bother
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- Annie
- 01-09-20
Great; already downloaded another by the author
This listen was so well-written that I immediately downloaded another book by Samantha Hayes.
It combined the two elements I enjoy most in crime fiction - the early part laid down all the clues we needed to solve the mystery, and the final part was in the best tradition of domestic noir, with twists and surprises and an element of fear.
It's a four star for me rather than a five-star only because I personally didn't like the main character and narrator, Jo. She's just so tedious and whiny, and originally determined to make out that everything in her relationship was wonderful when, quite clearly, it was anything but.
However, you may not find her so irritating - some of my dislike, I'm sure, comes from my inbuilt class prejudice - she and her friends are a bit too middle class and entitled for my tastes, but I suspect that they wouldn't put off some others.
In any case, we don't have to like characters to love a book, and The Happy Couple is a great example of this. Samantha Hayes kept me reading, through Jo's whines about being abandoned by her husband, the bizarre decision she makes not to call her police liaison officer when she notices her husband's photos on a fireplace in a picture of a house available for housesitting, and through her weird choice not to even tell the friendly local police officer when she discovers the homeowner's obvious obsession with her missing husband.
I just kept on wondering, "What's happened in the car? Why's she so afraid to take it to the garage for a service? What or whom has she or her husband run over?" and those questions drove me forward through the narrative, guessing some of the answers correctly and some incorrectly. And the denouement was simply edge-of-the-seat stuff.
Looking forward to the next one, which, as I say, I've already downloaded, and happy to have discovered such a good new-to-me crime author.
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- Darren Savage
- 09-06-20
Twists until the end
The book left you wanting more - you thought you knew where the story was going and it’s not until the end the pieces fall in place. Well read and you got to form the characters well. Makes me wanted to look up more books by the same author
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- Rach 71
- 24-02-23
wow wow wow 👌 Not what I'd envisaged
fanbloomintastic... okay, so it's a bit far-fetched, but hey, it still captured my imagination. I really enjoyed it. It was a completely different ending to what I was expecting, and it worked well. Definitely a 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-06-20
Great Read
I enjoyed reading the 📚 but I just feel like the ending was rushed. It took the writer a while to get to the point and all of a sudden too many things happened at once and then the end.
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- Tina
- 04-09-20
Trys too hard to twist and turn
Crap male voice.
Book starts well but then escalates into ridiculousness. U wont guess the ending cos its crap.
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- Helen C.
- 30-09-20
Great story
I loved the book. Poor very last bit at the end which was a shame.
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- Mel Dillon
- 13-03-24
Not great but ok.
The book was predictable. The story was far fetched, without giving it away there’s no way she’d stumble on that house.
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- Denise Kempton
- 17-07-20
A bit of a strange ending
On the whole the story was ok & held my interest but I felt that it ended a bit strangely & it should have gone on a bit further
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