Goodnight Beautiful: A Novel

Aimee Molloy

Oct 2020 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland, and Joel Froomkin

About this audiobook

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award 

From “master of clever misdirection” (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing.

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York City and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown upstate. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn’t satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after. 

Showcasing Molloy’s deft ability to subvert norms and culminating in the kind of stunning twist that is becoming her trademark, Goodnight Beautiful is a thrilling tale of domestic suspense that not only questions assumptions but defies expectations.

Ratings and reviews

Wow – fantastic audiobook! This was a captivating story with many twists and turns. Just when I thought I might have things figured out something happened to make me realize that I really had no idea of how this was going to turn out. The audiobook was truly an amazing one to listen to. A complimentary copy of this audiobook was provided to me at my request; my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author and/or narrator.

Couple of twists... one I expected just ever so slightly... and the other that I did not see coming.

Excellent narration. I thoroughly enjoyed this one.

About the author

Aimee Molloy’s debut novel, The Perfect Mother, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family.