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Six years ago Nina Mosley discovered her husband was a serial killer and called the police. After he was put away on death row she moved to a town in North Carolina with her son, changed her name to Leigh Wren and they started a new life. Now she has been outed by one of her ex-husband's victim's family. News people gather on her lawn and in front of her office trying to speak to her, but she just wants it all to go away. Soon it comes to light that a reporter who wanted to write about her story has disappeared and the media is hinting that she might have had something to do with the disappearance. As she works with a private investigative husband and wife team she discovers that there's another larger danger out there than she thought – and she and her son might be targets of the evil. A lot of this book has Leigh going over her life with her husband, trying to see if she could have discovered that he was such a terribly evil man sooner. She looks hard at how she lived her life and tries to be truthful, because she feels terrible guilt at not knowing what her husband was doing sooner. To add to her problems, her young son now resents her for telling him lies about his father. He's learning the whole truth now and it is very hard for him. Now it seems that someone is killing people, echoing the way her husband murdered his victims. The world is looking at Leigh as either the killer or as someone who knows more than she's telling. But as time goes on, it's all to clear to Leigh that she and her son seem to be on this new killer's target. But no one knows how and why this is happening. Her husband is still on death row and he can't be giving orders to any followers. The new killer must be found before he does any more harm – especially to Leigh and her son. The KILLER'S WIFE is a mildly interesting book to read. There's really nothing special about it to make me recommend that you read it. The story slowly revels a wife's life as she doesn't see what kind of person her husband really was, and then when she finds out she turns him in right away. I didn't feel much angst in the character having to do with her husband's sickness, and she didn't suffer over turning him in really. As for the rest of the story, it didn't up the tension and it didn't surprise me at all. A simple story told with few chills, A KILLER'S WIFE isn't a bad book; it's just rather tepid.
Reviewed by A. L. Katz, January 2008
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