After He Died – Michael J Malone
You need to know who your husband really was…
When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost thirty years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son, Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is stunned when a young woman approaches her at the funeral service, and slips something into her pocket. A note suggesting that Paula’s husband was not all that he seemed…
When the two women eventually meet, a series of revelations challenges everything Paula thought they knew, and it becomes immediately clear that both women’s lives are in very real danger.
Both a dark, twisty slice of domestic noir and taut, explosive psychological thriller, After He Died is also a chilling reminder that the people we trust the most can harbour the deadliest secrets…
My thanks to Karen at Orenda Books for my review copy
After He Died – another brilliantly entertaining read from Michael J Malone. Imagine a life snuffed out too soon, a soul gone unexpectedly and where the deceased was spinning many plates and not sharing his plans with his nearest and dearest.
Imagine now a grieving widow mourning the loss of her one true love and that sense of regret that they had not tried hard enough to resolve small frictions in their relationship.
Now imagine the funeral where a stranger approaches you at your most vulnerable moment and suggests you didn’t really know the man you married, the man you are mourning, the man just put into the ground. Welcome to Paula Gadd’s world.
As Paula tries to understand who her husband really was and why parts of his life are unknown to her she will face the ultimate dilemma…who can she trust? Family and friends, even random strangers, will all give their opinions on Paula’s husband but they will try to protect her from unpleasant truths. Or are they purposefully lying and distorting events? Paula cannot know but she can see that more people are dying. That her house is not the safe fortress that she imagined or that she herself may not be in danger.
This is one of those stories where assumptions are dangerous, surprises keep coming and the characters spring from the pages as they are entirely believable and wonderfully defined.
If you enjoy a thriller which delivers twists and turns and icy chills then this is the giant slalom read for you. Cracking stuff from an author who knows how to hook his reader.
After He Died is published by Orenda Books and is available in digital format and paperback from 20 September 2018. You can order a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-He-Died-Michael-Malone-ebook/dp/B07DFPCLNK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1537220938&sr=1-1