The Silent Wife, one of this summer's sleeper hits, is making a stealth move up USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, climbing to No. 17 Thursday.
It's being compared to Gillian Flynn's 2012 smash hit about a husband suspected in his wife's disappearance (and still going strong at No. 24).
A sad side note adding to interest in The Silent Wife: Canadian author A.S.A. Harrison died of cancer at age 65 in April and never saw her debut novel, published on June 25, become a breakout success.
So is The Silent Wife as good as Gone Girl, that twisty thrill ride of marital trickery and very black comedy?
Wife is perhaps not quite as much naughty fun as Girl — what could top the head-spinning antics of Amazing Amy, the inimitable and psychotic young wife of Gone Girl?
But The Silent Wife (*** ½ out of four stars) is extremely clever, beginning with its multilayered title.
The amazing Jodi Brett of Wife — who gives Amazing Amy a run for her best-selling money — is not really a wife. A therapist with passive-aggressive tendencies, Jodi, 45, has never married contractor Todd, even though most people call her "Mrs. Gilbert." The couple has lived together cozily in Chicago for 20 years, Jodi silently complicit in Todd's many affairs — until he crosses the line with demanding Natasha, a college student.
Debut novel 'The Silent Wife' is making some noise
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