Her Husband's Alibi

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The police asked if my husband was home with me that night. I said yes. I wasn't home. On a Thursday morning in March, two detectives come to Georgie Selby's door in Hove. Frankie Carver, her husband's business partner, has been found dead at the foot of the stairs in her Kemptown flat. Jude Selby says he was at home with his wife all Tuesday night. Can Georgie confirm that? She says yes. She knows about the affair. She knows about the message Frankie sent Jude that night: Tell her tonight or I will. She knows the police are looking hard at her husband. And she knows the one thing nobody else does: on Tuesday night, between twenty to eleven and twenty past midnight, she wasn't at home. DS Nasreen Qureshi of the Major Crime Team doesn't believe either of them. She has a woman in a yellow raincoat on a seafront camera, a second wine glass on the victim's table, and a husband who keeps saying we were both at home before anyone has asked about his wife. The longer Georgie keeps her husband's alibi, the more it looks like her own. And she has started to wonder why, in five weeks, Jude has never once asked her where she was. • A twisty domestic thriller told by a wife, a detective and, at the very end, a husband. • Set in present-day Brighton and Hove. • A standalone novel.