The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey
A Novel
by Astrid Dahl
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Pub Date Jan 14 2025 | Archive Date Feb 13 2025
Description
Meet the Garden State Goddesses, the cast of Huzzah’s third most popular show:
“I may play for both teams, but when it comes to being real, I always bring my A game.” —Renee Ricci
“When life gives me lemons, I make citron presse´ on my yacht in Saint- Tropez.” —Birdie St. Clair
“I don’t bite, but I do scratch, and these talons are 100 percent Italian.” —Carmela Fontana
When Hope Bennett marries Carmela’s brother Leo she not only becomes a Fontana, but a Garden State Goddess—and not everyone is happy.
Secrets will be revealed, decades-long rivalries will surface, and a sudden murder will lead to a reality reckoning no one is prepared for, least of all the show’s producer Eden who must race to catch a killer and save the most dramatic season of all time.
“Secrets, gallows humor, campy reality TV stars, and an Instagram gossip account called ‘Shady Di’—Astrid Dahl's?The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey?is the kind of book I wanted to live inside. LOLing and gasping my way through, I nearly wished I'd written it myself!” —Anna Dorn, author of Perfume & Pain
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781668064887 |
| PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews
SJ M, Reviewer
Astrid Dahl was the lead of Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain, one of my top new releases of 2024 (so far) and is high up on my list of favourite messy queer women protagonists. So ofc when I got the email inviting me to read her upcoming The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey, I said "uh, fuck yeah" to myself and immediately added it to my reader.
It came as no surprise that messy as fuck Astrid Dahl would write more messy as fuck queer women, and when you add on the fact that it's a murder mystery taking place during the filming of a trashy reality show, OF COURSE I'm going to love it.
I don't even care that the mystery wasn't all that mysterious bc I was having such a great time with the characters.
More, please.
Bookseller 1182978
The Anna Dorn literary universe has expanded once again with The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey. This was a fun book! Anna Dorn/Astrid Dahl is one of my favorite authors, and her newest novel did not disappoint. A fun thriller with a reality TV backdrop that’s perfect for people who crave good drama stories and piping hot tea. Dorn/Dahl is a master at writing really interesting characters and their interpersonal drama, and for someone who is a fan of her work, you will not be disappointed.
Brenda F, Reviewer
I read this in a day! This is the Queer, Guilty Pleasure, Trashy, Family, Romance, Oh SNAP, WTF book I have been waiting for!
Desperate to catapult her career, Eden convinces her naive cousin to join the Garden State Goddesses reality show.
Told from various perspectives, the vicious and loving plot keeps a hard pace. Intense attraction. Sapphic. I pre-ordered a copy I loved it so much.
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