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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

When Alice Hale manages to blow up her New York City life and career, she decamps to the suburbs with her hubby and embarks on a quest to make their new house a home. In a box in the basement, she discovers a vintage cookbook. Before long, she’s intent on uncovering the secrets of Nellie Murdoch, the former owner of the home, who was the perfect wife with the perfect suburban life. Or was she? As Alice digs deeper, into Nellie’s secrets and her own lies, she discovers a sinister mystery and this truth: that perfect isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This is a great beach read complete with recipes for a wide variety of occasions.

Pem McNerney, Living Editor, Shore Publishing