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Goodnight Beautiful

A Novel

by Aimee Molloy

Length 7 hours 51 minutes

Language English

Narrators Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland & Joel Froomkin

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Bookseller recommendation

“A good-looking couple from New York City move upstate for a slower lifestyle, but things quickly take a turn when the husband goes missing. When Sam Statler, a therapist with a range of diverse clients, doesn’t come home, his wife, Annie, is desperate to find him and begins to suspect one of his clients. As secrets unravel, Molloy keeps the reader excited and engaged in this intriguing thriller.”
— Deanna Bailey • Story on the Square

Bookseller recommendation

“I was hesitant to even start this. Yet another psychological domestic thriller, unreliable narrators, husband with secrets who disappears, etc, etc. Hasn't that been done over and over? Believe me when I say it has never been done like this! Molloy teases us and taunts us as she very slowly reveals the facts about the Statler's marriage and about what kind of person Sam really is. None of which will prepare you for the chilling ending.”
— Nancy • Fiction Addiction

Bookseller recommendation

“Aimee Molloy has a reputation for being the "Master of Misdirection." There is no better example of her expertise than Goodnight Beautiful. Handsome Dr. Sam Statler is a newlywed and is madly in love with his bride, Annie. He is a therapist and works out of an office in a home. There is a vent in the ceiling and his sessions can be heard in the closet of another floor. A certain someone is fascinated by all the patient's cases. That's about all I can tell you except this is one heck of a wild ride. The twists and turns are real stunners that I never saw coming. Not only is the story intriguing, but the narration deserves five stars.”
— Katie • Buttonwood Books and Toys

Summary
About the author

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

From “master of clever misdirection” (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing.

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn’t satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after.

Showcasing Molloy’s deft ability to subvert norms and culminating in the kind of stunning twist that is becoming her trademark, Goodnight Beautiful is a thrilling tale of domestic suspense that not only questions assumptions but defies expectations.

Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Aimee Molloy’s debut novel, The Perfect Mother, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.