The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford is a page turner. A mystery thriller which keeps you guessing until the end. When Celia is murdered her neighbour Dana Catrell wonders if she did it. Struggling with mental health she remembers being at Celia's house, being drunk, and seeing a photo of her husband on Celia's mobile with another women. Has she killed the woman in a jealous rage after realising that Celia and her husband are lovers? While Dana's husband denies knowing the neighbour he insists Dana needs help and must see the doctor - that she becoming manic. The relationship between Dana and Peter is strained already. Now Dana watches him, searches his pockets, explores his log details on his mobile.
As detective Jack Moss takes on the case he feels sympathy for Dana but she is not the only suspect. Peter and Ronald (Celia's husband) fall in the frame, and just to complicate matters Jack finds an item belonging to his estranged son outside the window of the property. How are they linked? Dana finds two threatening notes and she can't rule out that she wrote them herself. Even her husband thinks she did. Can Dana find her way of of the mess before the coming breakdown takes her?
A very incisive look at mental health and what it means to be a manic depressive. The reader observes how Dana uses this period of heightened senses to help her while even enjoying the feeling, yet she unable to piece together what is real and what not.
The reader is taken from one suspect to another. There is a clue dropped early on which comes back near the end, but even so, you are kept guessing. You are never quite sure.
As detective Jack Moss takes on the case he feels sympathy for Dana but she is not the only suspect. Peter and Ronald (Celia's husband) fall in the frame, and just to complicate matters Jack finds an item belonging to his estranged son outside the window of the property. How are they linked? Dana finds two threatening notes and she can't rule out that she wrote them herself. Even her husband thinks she did. Can Dana find her way of of the mess before the coming breakdown takes her?
A very incisive look at mental health and what it means to be a manic depressive. The reader observes how Dana uses this period of heightened senses to help her while even enjoying the feeling, yet she unable to piece together what is real and what not.
The reader is taken from one suspect to another. There is a clue dropped early on which comes back near the end, but even so, you are kept guessing. You are never quite sure.
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