Blonde. Beautiful. A loving mother. And missing since Monday.
New York Times bestselling author Kate White returns with another thrilling page-turner starring true crime writer Bailey Weggins in
SUCH A PERFECT WIFE (Harper Paperbacks; on sale May 7th).
On a sunny morning in late September, Shannon
Blaine sets off for a jog along the rural roads near her home in Lake
George, New York. It’s her usual routine, her “me time” after dropping
the kids off at school…except on this day she never
returns.
Bailey Weggins, now working for the online magazine Crime Beat,
is called in to investigate Shannon’s disappearance. She assumes the
person responsible must be someone close to Shannon, and there are
plenty of possibilities: a bitter
sister, an unfaithful brother-in-law, a creepy local motel owner, and
an evasive church deacon. And, of course, the husband. Because when a
wife disappears, the husband is almost always “a person of interest” in
the investigation. Is her husband lying when
he says he has no clue where she is? Could Shannon have split on her
own, overwhelmed by the pressures of her life? Or is she the victim of a
sexual predator who had been prowling the area and snatched her before
she knew what was happening?
An anonymous tip soon leads Bailey to a grisly,
bone-chilling discovery. Every town has its secrets, Bailey reminds
herself, and nothing is ever as perfect as it seems. She keeps digging
for answers until—when it’s almost too late—she unearths
the terrifying truth.