Beautiful Ugly

Thriller novelist Grady Green hasn't written a word since his wife Abby disappeared. A phone call, an abandoned car by a cliff's edge, and then nothing. A year later, still unable to move on, Grady accepts his agent's offer of a cabin on the remote Isle of Amberly, hoping the isolation will restart both his career and his life.

Amberly turns out to be stranger than he expected: a close-knit, women-run community with its own history and its own secrets. Then Grady meets a woman who could be Abby's double — same face, different eyes — who introduces herself as a stranger and seems to have no idea who he is.

What follows is a tightly wound psychological thriller about marriage, identity, and how far people will go to reinvent themselves, told with the narrative sleight of hand Alice Feeney is known for.