Pekkanen’s previous novels Skipping a Beat and The Perfect Neighbors, have shown a similar type of unexpected events. And it’s here when we can’t help but be in awe of Hendricks and Pekkanen’s talent for fooling us so deliciously and so deliberately, while we innocently fell for it.

But halfway into the book, we know what is really happening, or at least we think we do. From the very first page, we know that it’s a tale of obsession but it’s also filled with smoke and mirrors, so many twists and turns you’ll think you’re in that creepy maze from The Shining. This is a difficult book to review without giving anything away. With Vanessa the relationship has deteriorated where there was love, now there is resentment and mistrust.īut who watches whom? Who is the stalker and who the prey? Whom can we believe? Richard is a smooth-talking, debonair, financially successful, with an imposing personality. The story is told from the points of view of Nelly and Vanessa, two women, very similar on the outside who have loved the same man. But is this really true? Can we trust the narrators of this story? Or are we being fooled into thinking something is real, when it isn’t?

A man, his jealous ex-wife who desperately wants to stop him from remarrying, and his beautiful new young fiancé are at the heart of a complicated love triangle in The Wife Between Us, the new thriller by authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.

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