One of the Good Guys: Unravelling The Mystery Of The Perfect Husband

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Cole is one of the good guys: supportive of his wife's career, keen to be a hands on dad, a romantic, engaged by the natural world, not a big drinker. Quiet-spoken. So when she leaves him, he is floored. He was the perfect husband, wasn't he And whilst contemplating this he meets Lennie. And he thinks he might have finally found a soulmate. The real Lennie turns out to be quite different from the woman he'd expected but that doesn't quell his desire for her. And she would be lucky to be with a man like him. A good guy. But if most men say they're one of the good guys, then why do so many women live in fear

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One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today. Her writing is so addictive, her characters so sharply realized. One of the Good Guys is a resonant, razor-laced and dangerously glittering novel -- Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
Scorching, smart and soaked in feminist rage, this is a suspense that stays with you long after the last page -- Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club
It got me by the throat and wouldnt let go. Its creepy, thought-provoking, compelling and so very relevant -- Julie Cohen, author of Eat Slay Love
A scintillating thriller and a scorching condemnation of how differently society treats men versus women -- Kellye Garrett, author of Missing White Woman
A mind-bending tour de force. Araminta Hall has always been one of my favorite writers, but what she has done here is groundbreaking. This thriller is shocking, twisted, dark, and absolutely on-point -- Samantha Downing, author of A Twisted Love Story
A riveting and kaleidoscopic look at women swept up in the current of toxic masculinity and the blowback when they pull themselves to safety empowering and inspirational -- Ivy Pochoda, author of Sing Her Down
A dark, original and thought-provoking read. This book will hook you from the first page and keep you thinking long after the last -- Alice Feeney, author of Good Bad Girl
Provocative, surprising and entirely original, this tale of power and gender will not only have you looking at the world a different way, but will have you looking at yourself a different way -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of One Wrong Word
This book delves into the painful and messy complexities of misogyny, consent and gendered power dynamics with an unflinching narrative scalpel -- Phillippa East, author of A guilty Secret
A book for the #metoo generation that taps into all kinds of fears/hopes/difficulties that come with the movement -- Louise Swanson, author of Lights Out
Araminta Hall is a master of suspense, and her latest novel is a timely, thrilling tale that offers no easy villains or heroes, but loads of surprises. Beautifully written, deliciously tense and entirely surprising I tore through it -- Julia Dahl, author of I Dreamed of Falling
A bold and on-point feminist thriller about gendered violence with Gone Girl twistiness and narrator unreliability -- Victoria Selman, Truly, Darkly, Deeply
A dark, dazzling shock to the system. One of the Good Guys is clever, composed, exciting and frightening -- Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark
It's so clever it blew my mind a bit. It's about men and women and trust and art and violence and safety. And it's just excellent -- Laura Pearson, author of Nobody's Wife
An absolutely thrilling tale, full of breathless cliffside terror and fresh feminist theory masked in tight, propulsive mystery. I devoured this book -- Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women
An intriguing mix of psychological thriller and contemporary feminist fable. -- Daily Mail
I cant express this enough when I say, trust no one. Brilliant, timely and necessary. Really enjoyed it -- Dorothy Koomson, author of Every Smile You Fake
One of the Good Guys doesn't just tell a story. It makes you think, it makes you angry, and it makes you want to read it again -- Caz Frear, author of Five Bad Deeds
A story that will stay with you long after the last page. Terrifying because it all reads so painfully true and familiar if you are a woman nowadays. -- Laure Van Rensburg, author of The Good Daughter
Clever, disturbing, challenging, twisty and utterly compelling. A brilliant, thought-provoking novel for our times. -- Peter James, author of They Thought I Was Dead
WOW. As compelling as it is arch; as shocking as it a salutary reminder of what it means to be a woman today. What a read! -- Lizzy Barber, author of Nanny Wanted ,i/>
'Truly chilling, enraging and satisfying all at the same time!' -- Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange
A thriller that is timely, unsettling and so very relevant. Superb. -- David Fennell, author of A Violent Heart
Compelling, provocative, dazzlingly clever. -- CM Ewan, author of The House Hunt
Part thriller, part social commentary on what it is to be a woman, this is a thought-provoking read. -- Fabulous Magazine
When two women go missing, a couple finds themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy in this psychological thriller about gender and power. -- Irish Examiner
Hall is fantastically good at upending expectations and pulling the wool over her readers eyes, so I cant say much more without giving things away but this exploration of female rage isnt what you think its going to be. -- Observer
This twisty tale will keep you on your toes -- CrimeMonthly
Araminta Hall slowly and carefully brings the reader into the story, which highlights that no one is perfect or fully good, touching on issues of security and control. -- Belfast Telegraph
A credible and confronting tale seething with insightful suspense -- Womans Weekly
Original, hauntingly dark, and so clever! Hall's feminist tour de force, One Of The Good Guys, shines a light on how easy it can be for strong women to be coerced and manipulated by 'good' men...and how easily these men hide in plain sight -- Natali Simmonds, author of Good Girls Die Last
Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable. -- Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True

Author Bio

Araminta Hall has worked as a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Everything & Nothing, was published in 2011 and became a Richard & Judy read that year. Her second, Dot, was published in 2013. She teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children.