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A review by mikekaz
The Serial Killer's Wife by Blake Crouch, Robert Swartwood
4.0
I had a great time reading this novel. It was a great "race against time" novel with a twist ending that I suspected but didn't really see coming.
Elizabeth Piccioni had a good life until her husband was arrested by the FBI as a serial killer. During the trial and publicity, Elizabeth runs away to try to give her son a normal life. Now five years later, her son's life is at risk by a psycho who wants the trophies from her husband's murders. Elizabeth has 100 hours to race back to her old life and try to find the trophies so that her son can be saved.
The story was exciting and gripping as the characters raced to the end. As I mentioned, I suspected a twist at the end since a few things during the story seemed too easy and obvious. The degree of the twist though was something that I did not expect. However, nothing was out of character for anyone. There was no sacrifice to the reality of the story in order to achieve the surprise. Instead the characters were all three-dimensional, easy to picture and equally easy to care about. Well, I did find that her son was a bit of a caricature. He didn't really have any personality; considering though that for 95% of the book he was solely in the background as a threat and motivation to the main character, I didn't really mind. I'm looking forward to reading more books by Swartwood.
Elizabeth Piccioni had a good life until her husband was arrested by the FBI as a serial killer. During the trial and publicity, Elizabeth runs away to try to give her son a normal life. Now five years later, her son's life is at risk by a psycho who wants the trophies from her husband's murders. Elizabeth has 100 hours to race back to her old life and try to find the trophies so that her son can be saved.
The story was exciting and gripping as the characters raced to the end. As I mentioned, I suspected a twist at the end since a few things during the story seemed too easy and obvious. The degree of the twist though was something that I did not expect. However, nothing was out of character for anyone. There was no sacrifice to the reality of the story in order to achieve the surprise. Instead the characters were all three-dimensional, easy to picture and equally easy to care about. Well, I did find that her son was a bit of a caricature. He didn't really have any personality; considering though that for 95% of the book he was solely in the background as a threat and motivation to the main character, I didn't really mind. I'm looking forward to reading more books by Swartwood.