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The Silent Wife

Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event.  He is a committed cheater. She lives and breathes denial. He exists in dual worlds. She likes to settle the scores. He decides to play for keeps. She has nothing left to lose. Told in alternating voices, The Silent Wife is about a marriage in the throes of dissolution, a couple headed for a catastrophe, concessions that can't be made, and promises that won't be kept. 

My daughter-in-law, Crystal, had given me this book months ago. Her co-workers and she had read the book in a book club they had formed. I had put it on my shelf to be read.  I had run out of the books from the library and wanted something to read.  It seemed to call me from the shelf. 
Jodi and Todd seemed to have it all, the nice condo, he owned his own business, and she ran her counseling business from their condo.  Something, though, isn't quite right in their relationship. 
Jodi knows that there is something "off" in their relationship but decides not to dwell on it because they have been together for 20 years and nothing has come between them.  
Todd went through a depression, he knows he loves Jodi but he loves the thrill and excitement of being with other women. They have a happy content life with each other so what could go wrong.
As the book keeps going between Jodi and Todd you learn how they met and fell in love, how they have fallen into this "rut" that neither one seems to know how to pull them out of it.
Then Jodi finds out that Todd is leaving her for another much younger woman.  

This book continues to take you back and forth until you seem to either take a side.  Jodi is the woman wronged and Todd the poor guy caught between two women. I feel the book has a good pace.  The ending isn't as surprising as one would think but feel vindicated by how the end comes about. 

I think I could say I liked it *** but didn't fall in love with it.   If you like mystery/thrillers, I could say you wouldn't be completely disappointed by this book.  
Till next time, Happy Reading.



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