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Malice Aforethought - A Chilling Novel of Marriage, Murder, and the Criminal Mind
Paperback
Publisher: Impact
Published: Jan 1 2027
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dr. Edmund Bickleigh appears to be an ordinary English country physician: respectable, mild-mannered, and thoroughly embedded in village life. Behind that appearance, however, lies an unhappy marriage, a wandering eye, and a steadily growing conviction that his domineering wife Julia is the chief obstacle between him and the life he wants.
The question is not who will commit the crime. Francis Iles tells us where the danger lies almost from the beginning. Instead, the tension comes from watching resentment turn into intention, intention into murder, and murder into an increasingly precarious struggle to maintain the appearance of normality. Bickleigh is calculating but vain, intelligent but fallible, and his carefully constructed plans must contend with desire, jealousy, suspicion, and the unpredictable behavior of the people around him.
Malice Aforethought overturns the traditional whodunit by placing the reader inside the mind of the murderer. Darkly comic, psychologically acute, and steadily suspenseful, it is a remarkable portrait of an apparently commonplace man discovering just how far he is willing to go to reshape his life. The result is both a murder story and a penetrating examination of self-deception, respectability, and evil concealed beneath the surface of ordinary life.
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