Her Prodigal Husband – Becky Masterman

From the award-winning author of the internationally-bestselling Brigid Quinn thrillers, which have been translated into twenty languages, comes this gripping series spin-off: an upmarket novel of domestic suspense about a pair of sisters nicknamed Malice and Lethal, and a husband who vanishes into thin air, only to reappear and throw a bomb into both their livesAlice Einstein – known as „Malice“ to her former schoolfriends – likes to tell herself stories. There“s a good one she“s workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she“s ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse sister Liesl“s spare room.But then Liesl sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back.Sam, Liesl“s wealthy ex-husband, vanished ten years ago, leaving her a chunk of money but no explanation. Sam is handsome, charming, manipulative . . . and now he claims he“s sick. But Alice, with her experience of spinning tales, knows a liar when she sees one.Haunted by a childhood tragedy that gave birth to the cruel nickname „Lethal“, Liesl now specialises in saving things: dogs, children, sisters. Telling herself it“s time she returned the favor, Alice engages the services of Brigid Quinn, a hardboiled local private investigator with a shady past, to help her get rid of Sam for good.But as the plot thickens, Alice begins to wonder if she knows anyone involved – most of all herself – quite as well as she thinks . . .Packed with quirky, colorful characters, and with a nail-biting, slowburn plot, Her Prodigal Husband is a nail-biting novel of domestic suspense that raises thought-provoking questions about self-deception, the power of stories, and what it means to be a family, and marks the long-awaited return of Brigid Quinn, „one of the most memorable FBI agents since Clarice Starling“ (Publishers Weekly).