He sleeps with one woman, but decides she shouldn't be murdered and then after rejecting another potential murder victim, he finally settles on a woman for them to murder together. A year later they both decide to get their murder on again and TSFP goes out trolling for potential victims, disguising himself as a deaf man named Tobias. He apparently never asks any details about what Millicent ended up doing exactly with the murdering and burying.

So TSFP goes to deal with that, leaving Millicent to do the dirty work. They take the hiker's unconscious body out to the woods to murder/bury her but unfortunately their teenage daughter, who was at a sleepover, calls because she is sick and needs to be picked up. TSFP and Millicent pick out a woman to kill, who happens to like to hike. So that's when things go from weird to really stupid. But now that they each have a murder under their belts, all of a sudden murdering seems really sexy. But instead Millicent kills her to 'protect' TSFP from going to jail. Next, some work friend of Holly's puts two and two together and tries to blackmail TSFP and Millicent into paying her to keep quiet. They cover up the sort of accidental murder because TSFP killed her with a tennis racket and she was unarmed and hadn't hurt anyone yet so he was totally going to get jail time for that. Which on it's own is enough to make me not want to recommend this book because that really skeeved me out despite the fact that there are no explicit sex scenes or murder scenes in this book.īut how did this couple, who have two teenage children no less, get into this sick crime? There's a really long uninteresting backstory so in summary: basically Millicent (the 'lovely wife' from the book title) manages to get her husband 'TSFP' (which stands for That Stupid Fucking Psycho, because this book never gives him a name) to kill her sister Holly (which is also my name RIP Holly, you didn't deserve all of that) in the name of defending Millicent. Where do I even begin?! Ok, first off this book is about a husband and wife who decide that murdering women is somehow a turn on and keeps their marriage fun and sexy.

Spoiler time! Seriously, this is going to be long!

Some people really enjoyed this book so consider that before deciding to spoil this book's entire plot by reading my ridiculously (and uncharacteristically) long spoiler below: I have a lot of things to say about this book, none of them good, pretty much all of it is a spoiler.

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