Whenever Alafair Burke began writing The Wife after some duration ago, she could not just have known just how prompt it might be. Burke’s brand new novel, her 12th (plus four books co written with crime fiction doyenne Mary Higgins Clark), truly does seem ripped through the headlines: A charismatic academic turned celebrity, understood for their modern values, is accused of intimate harassment by a new girl he supervises.
Burke provides the tale, one all right that is too familiar, an interesting twist: She tells it through the perspective for the accused guy’s spouse.
Prior to the story breaks, Angela Powell has exactly exactly what appears like a lovely life. She ended up being working as a caterer on longer Island, where she spent my youth in a working course household, whenever she came across Jason Powell, an economist. Continue reading “Alafair Burke’s ‘The Wife’ is a gripping look at another part of sexual harassment”