The Perfect Affair – Angela Henry

Summary

When Paige Nichols meets her husband’s glamorous new colleague at a faculty mixer, she instantly knows they’re having an affair. It’s the way he looks at her, like she’s the only woman in the world. Aaron used to look at her like that, too. And with her beautiful, knowing smile, Cara Morton seems to enjoy flaunting their romance right under her nose

Paige believes Aaron when he says he’ll break things off. What else can she do when she’s determined to hold her family together? But then Cara makes a shocking accusation about Aaron that threatens to end his career as a college professor and shatter their barely patched up marriage. Paige stands by her husband, but doubts creep in. Is Cara a victim? Or is this all part of her dangerous game?

Then Cara Morton disappears without a trace.

Paige knows her husband can keep secrets. She’s keeping dark secrets of her own. But is he a killer? The police seem to think so. But they don’t know Cara … they don’t know about her past. They don’t know what she’s capable of…

Review

The premise of “The Perfect Affair” is one that is used very popularly and we’ve all read at least one book with the same concept: Married man has an affair, mistress is found dead. Whodunit?

My congratulations to the narrator, I keep listening just because of her (and because I wanted to know who actually was responsible for the murder) but I just didn’t care in the end for anyone. I liked that there weren’t many obvious red herrings that detracted from the plot but I didn’t like how the book wrapped up.

The flow of the story was disjointed, with frequent shifts in timelines that confused me a lot while reading. I think the book would have benefitted from having the chapters explicitly titled past/present.

An ok book, but very forgettable.