Goodnight Beautiful

Sam Statler and Annie Potter are newlyweds who leave New York City for Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Sam is a psychotherapist, and he sees his clients in a downstairs office at his home. Annie, new to the town and without much to fill her days, spends most of her time alone while he works long hours.

A vent in the ceiling of Sam's office carries every word of his sessions to the room above. Sam does not know it. Annie can hear the pharmacist's wife weighing a divorce, and a well-known painter complaining that her boyfriend leaves her unsatisfied. Most of his clients are women, and Annie keeps listening.

The marriage seems fine until a French girl in a green Mini Cooper turns up. Soon afterward Sam goes to work one day and never comes home. His disappearance exposes secrets and lies running through the marriage, and it ends the life the two had planned.

This is a psychological thriller of domestic suspense, set in a small town. It has a truly unreliable narrator and a twist near the close. Expect a slow reveal of what each person has hidden, with the reader kept guessing about whom to trust.