Review: The Next Wife - Liz Lawler - November 2020 There’s something quietly unsettling about a love story that begins in warmth and slowly turns cold, and The Next Wife by Liz Lawler captures that shift with a haunting, slow-burn intensity. At the start, I found myself drawn into Tess’s world - the kind of life that feels small but safe, filled with love, routine, and comfort. Her relationship with Daniel in their London apartment had that cosy, almost cocoon-like quality, and I could understand why Tess believed marriage would simply be an extension of that happiness. But as we all know, sometimes change doesn’t arrive loudly ,it seeps in quietly, almost unnoticed, until it’s everywhere. When Tess and Daniel move into the grand mansion, the atmosphere subtly shifts. What should have been a dream upgrade instead becomes isolating, and Lawler does an excellent job of showing how control can creep into a relationship under the guise of care. Daniel’s transformation is chilling not becau...

Review: The Wife Upstairs - Freida McFadden - March 2020 Sylvia has just gotten out of a toxic relationship and is inching close to eviction from her apartment, she just needs to find a new job. On a day that seems to go to crap, she is given a sliver of hope as she meets Adam Bennett. He is looking for someone to act as his wife's live-in companion as a few years ago his wife had an accident and fell down the stairs. Sylvia accepts even though it just seems too good to be true. She is about to discover that, that is the case as Victoria leads Sylvia to her diary that she kept from when she first met Adam and leading up to their marriage and living in this big house. As Sylvia reads it, she starts to see another side of Adam one that paints him as a bad guy and possibly the source of why Victoria fell down the stairs. As Sylvia gets closer to Adam, she is asked by Victoria to grab his gun for her as Adam needs to "die". When things start to spiral, Sylvia will find hersel...

Review: My Wife's Secrets - Book #2 My Husband's Fiancee Series - Wendy Owens - February 2022 At the end of Book #1, we read as Liz Foster ended up being exonerated for the murder of Alison who was her husband's mistress as the weapon was found and contained traces of DNA from a Patty Dane who supposedly disappeared from a mental institution. In Book #2 Nathan - Liz's ex-husband is married to his new wife Dr. Evelyn Foster who he met during a grief group when Liz was first convicted and now their little girl Madison. As we all know from reading the first book, Evelyn has a truckload of dark secrets including the big one that she was the one who killed Alison and set Liz up to take the fall. Now Liz is out and is worried for Nathan's safety but with Evelyn telling her side of the story, she has made sure in Nathan's eyes that Liz looks like the bad girl and a danger to her family and their daughter Madison, when that is far from the truth. What happens though ...

Review: The Girl In Keller's Way - Megan Goldin - May 2017 After reading both of Megan's later books The Night Swim and the Escape Room, I decided to go back to her debut novel "The Girl in Keller's Way". Like her later books, this one had all the twists and turns and the psychological angle. It was also easier to spot that this was her first novel and I have to admit she has improved quite a lot from this book to The Night Swim and really grown into her writing and found her footing. This book starts with a couple Julie and her professor husband Matt. Julie is a stepmother to their daughter and lives constantly in the shadow of Matt's previous wife Laura who we learn was killed years earlier. The book starts with her going running and needing to clear her head, that is until on her trip she is almost hit by a car that then swerves and crashes. The guy before he dies, tells her to run away as fast as she can and that she is in danger. Shaken, Julie arrives ho...