The House Wife by Natalie Barelli

 

Jodie always wanted to be a good homemaker. Not just good, but exemplary. 

A whirlwind romance leads Jodie to be married to renowned psychologist Dr Roy Davies. 

Being Mrs Roy Davies is not an easy task. Especially when all his friends know his previous wife, Deborah. Deborah is no more. She killed herself using the rifle Roy keeps in his office. Deborah was a wonderful person. Everyone would vouch for it. Roy is a wonderful husband. Everybody will vouch for this too. Then why would Deborah be forced to kill herself? 

Being Mrs Roy Davies is not easy. Roy's friends dont allow Jodie to forget that. At every gathering, the hoity toity wives have to pick up the Deborah story and to be fair, which wife would like that? So obviously, Jodie and Roy's friends are not best of friends. Jodie's presence irks even the housemaid, you can imagine.

Now, Jodie comes privy to information that Deborah had been losing her mind in the last few days of her life. Deborah was acting strange. She was depressed. Jodie wants to now dig into the not so good details about Deborah's death. But, digging for information and then taking it to the police will open her share of Pandora's box too. Would Jodie now risk that?But, why is Jodie so interested in Deborah and Roy's past? 

The kind of information Jodie comes face to face with is not devastating but horrendous. To know what this is all about, read this book which should be published sometime this year.

As for me, I did get bored a little when the story kept stretching about Jodie constantly trying to find incriminating information about her husband and not finding anything. It was like a wild goose chase. Maybe if the author cut short the book by 4 chapters, this would be a good read. Overall it is good and the story line does not hand hold you into guessing who the killer is. 

Thanks to NetGalley for this good read.