The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle
I started
reading this while I was in the Atlanta area, by happy coincidence. Will and
Iris have been married for just over seven years, but Iris itches only for
Will. She considers their relationship still thrilling. Instead of “I love
you,” they tell each other, “You are my favorite person on the planet.”
A year ago they
bought their dream house in Inman Park, an expensive and historic district in
Atlanta, even though the price means it will remain mostly unfurnished for a
few years. All goes well and their lives hum along, hers as a counselor at a
private school, his as a software engineer—until Will, who is supposed to be on
a business trip to Orlando, is reported dead from a plane that crashed on its
way to Seattle. Iris goes through the mourning process, starting with denial. That
starts to end when she finds that the conference Will was headed for doesn’t
exist. Then she learns that he actually bought tickets to both Orlando and
Seattle. Anger, the next stage of grief, bubbles to the surface. She redirects
it at Liberty Air, the airline whose plane crashed.
Her twin
brother Dave moves in to help her through this. Iris, Dave, and their tough dad
meet with a representative from the airline, Ann Margaret Myers. When Myers
offers Iris a settlement, her anger explodes and she rips up the check.
When she begins
to uncover secret after secret that her husband had kept from her, she begins
to have trouble mourning him, realizing she didn’t know who he was. As she
discovers more about him, her shock increases and the dark past reaches out to
snare her.
Reviewed by Kaye George, Author of Death on the Trek, for Suspense Magazine.
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1 comment:
Kaye, you didn't say how you liked it. I thought it was a terrific book. I got it by accident, as I do most standalones by authors unknown to me that I read (unless recommended by friends or reviewers I trust), but I decided it was a keeper.
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