![]() ![]() ![]() Walsh, whose 2018 debut thriller, "Ghosted," was a bestseller, splits the first-person narration of this story chiefly between Leo and Emma. Walsh just may have written the first domestic suspense novel in which the deceitful spouse is also a genuinely nice person. (That Maxim de Winter guy is too aloof, too insistent on having his own way to be without a tangled past.) But Emma Merry Bigelow, the enigmatic heroine of Rosie Walsh's "The Love of My Life," seems so funny, warm, compassionate and kind that we readers root for her - even though we learn fairly quickly that she's living under an assumed name and harbors a host of other secrets, something her adoring husband, Leo, doesn't know about. Usually, the partner with a secret triggers suspicion in us canny readers early on. "The Love of My Life" is a classic example of the "I married a stranger" domestic suspense plot - with a twist. In stories with these marriages, such as Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" and Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl," at least one partner (and sometimes both) has silently vowed to "love, honor, and deceive, till death do us part." That's the central premise of just about every domestic suspense novel ever written. ![]() Everybody who is married is married to a stranger. ![]()
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