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A stylish psychological thriller with the compelling intrigue of The Silent Wife and Turn of Mind and the white-knuckle pacing of Before I Go to Sleep--in which a woman suffering from bipolar disorder cannot remember if she murdered her friend.
Dana Catrell is shocked when her neighbor Celia is brutally murdered. To Dana's horror, she was the last person to see Celia alive. Suffering from mania, the result of her bipolar disorder, she has troubling holes in her memory, including what happened on the afternoon of Celia's death.
Her husband's odd behavior and the probing of Detective Jack Moss create further complications as she searches for answers. The closer she comes to piecing together the shards of her broken memory, the more Dana falls apart. Is there a murderer lurking inside her . . . or is there one out there in the shadows of reality, waiting to strike again?
A story of marriage, murder, and madness, The Pocket Wife explores the world through the foggy lens of a woman on the edge.
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Reseña de Publisher's Weekly
Dana Catrell, the heroine of Crawford's quirkily endearing debut, desperately needs to figure out what happened in those boozy, woozy hours between her argument with neighbor Celia Steinhauser and the discovery of the woman's body-ideally before Paterson, N.J., Det. Jack Moss gets to the bottom of it. Though suburban homemaker Dana doesn't believe herself capable of murder, she can't be sure since she stopped taking meds for her bipolar disorder. Fortunately for Dana, Jack, who reminds her of her first love, is also somewhat off his game in the wake of his wife's departure and the discovery that his estranged son, Kyle, seems to have been suspiciously close to Celia, Kyle's GED teacher. As Dana continues to spiral out of control, her accelerating mania clouding her perceptions, Crawford manages for the most part to sidestep cliché and preserve her leading lady's spunk, humor, and dignity. Although she's less successful resolving the mystery, both Dana and Jack deserve an encore. Agent: Jenny Bent, Bent Agency. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Reseña de Horn Book
With his parents missing and presumed dead, eleven-year-old Toby is sent to live with his uncle, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. When Uncle Gabriels nemesis, successful celebrity detective Hugh Abernathy, sponsors a contest offering a $10,000 prize and bragging rights as the next worlds greatest detective, Toby enters, without his uncles knowledge. But when Toby arrives at the manor where the contests murder is to take place, his hosts abrasive daughter Ivy--a would-be detective herself--discovers Tobys deception and inveigles him into teaming up with her to solve the mystery. Even worse, the pretend murder turns into a real murder, and all the detectives gathered for the competition are now suspects! Clues drop where and when they will be most useful, and the mystery structure is solidly built, with multiple red herrings and surprising reversals that will leave readers guessing up until the climax. Tobys often-luckless character keeps sympathies firmly on his side, whereas Ivys social rough edges humanize her interactions with Toby, even as she remains unapologetically smart and ambitious. With a wink and a tip of the hat, Carlson uses cozy-mystery tropes--motive, means, opportunity; gossipy spinsters with underappreciated sleuthing skills--to create a warm, humorous jaunt that could infect readers with a lifelong love of the genre. anita l. burkam (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A housewife struggling to control her bipolar disorder fears she's responsible for the brutal murder of her neighbor. Overcome by a wave of mania, Dana Catrell only remembers snippets of events leading up to the death of her friend Celia Steinhauser, who lived down the street in the quiet New Jersey suburb of Paterson. In her stumbling debut, Crawford makes the mistakes of painting every character, no matter how minor, as suspicious and setting readers up for a finale that will tie the disparate plotlines together in a tidy package (spoiler alert: Everything is connected, but it's far from satisfying). Dana lives with her attorney husband, Peter, the kind of man who'd drive anyone mad: boorish, condescending, quite possibly philandering. She longs for the company of her son, Jamie, who's just started college in Boston, and reminisces, albeit less than fondly, about her own college days at NYU, when she dated a mysterious man known only as the Poet and suffered her first bout of manic depression. Her illness waxes and wanes in service of the plot: She often ends up in a diner late at night, where a suspiciously sage waitress doles out philosophical advice along with the coffee. As Dana "works" the case on her end, the official inquiry is headed by Detective Jack Moss, a predictably troubled cop lugging predictably heavy emotional baggage. His investigation leads him to dig into Dana's life as well as Celia's, and poorly plotted intrigue ensues. With surprisingly little suspense and a cast ranging from unremarkable to unlikable, this tepid whodunit fails to satisfy. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Reseña de Booklist
Dana Catrell's neighbor Celia is found fatally wounded hours after the women shared a cocktail-drenched afternoon. Dana can't remember much, aside from their argument over pictures Celia took of Dana's husband dining with another woman. Determined to recover her lost afternoon, Dana works on unraveling Celia's secrets; she feels certain she's making progress when someone leaves threatening notes for her, and she glimpses a hoodie-clad figure creeping around her house. But her husband, Peter, is convinced that Dana has slipped into a manic phase of her bipolar disorder and has written the notes herself. Although Dana was the last person to see Celia alive, appealingly conflicted Detective Jack Moss won't commit to arresting Dana until he is certain the clues pointing to Peter and someone in his own private circle are resolved. Because the tale is told primarily from Dana's sharp but manic perspective, suspense develops around her possibly unreliable interpretation of events. This is a gripping, character-driven mystery that would pair well with Sophie Hannah's The Truth-Teller's Lie (2010).--Tran, Christine Copyright 2015 Booklist
Library Journal Review
After teacher Celia Steinhauser is found murdered in her home, Dana Catrell learns she was the last person to see her neighbor alive. Dana remembers arguing at Celia's house that day over a compromising photograph Celia had taken of Dana's husband. Unfortunately, they also drank too much sangria, and she can't remember anything else about the afternoon. As Dana investigates, she finds disturbing notes and other clues that cause her to question her own memory and suspect that she herself may have killed Celia. She is simultaneously consumed by building mania owing to her bipolar disorder. The captivating narration reflects Celia's progressively elated and fractured thoughts as she moves from energetic clarity to sleeplessness and self-destructive chaos. Alternating chapters follow diligent police detective Jack Moss as he navigates the many suspects (including his own son, a student of Celia's). In the final confrontation, the killer's confession comes a bit too easily, but the resolution is surprising, neat, and satisfying. VERDICT Descriptive, lyrical prose creates an intimate and visceral read that is both a solid mystery and a fast-paced psychological thriller. Try this first novel as a read-alike for Alice LaPlante's Turn of Mind. [See Prepub Alert, 9/15/14.]-Emily Byers, Tillamook Cty. Lib., OR (c) Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
