Sadie and her family have left Chicago for an isolated house in Maine for a fresh start, following a torturous few months. Sadie struggles with the isolation and the hard task of developing a relationship with her teenage niece who seemingly wants nothing to do with her extended family. When Sadie’s neighbour is murdered, she begins to suspect that bad luck may follow her family wherever they go. Or is there something much more sinister going on?

Holy Moly what have I just read? And in the space of one night I might add. This book was amazing. Dark, creepy and terribly threatening, I loved it and barley stopped for breath with each chapter. I thought I’d guessed the twist but then I was hit with another and another. Brilliant. Highly recommended xxxxx

Mary Kubica's latest psychological thriller is beautifully written, a dark, tense and unsettling novel of murder and madness. Sadie, a doctor and her professor husband, Will, move from Chicago to a small coastal town in Maine with their two children, looking for a new start after marital problems. Will has inherited an old, dilapidated and creepy house from his sister, who committed suicide in the house. They are now guardians to his niece, Imogen, an unsurprisingly angry and troubled teen who has just lost her mother and struggling to cope. Their lives are turned upside down when soon after arriving, their neighbour, Morgan Blaine, is found brutally murdered, stabbed to death. Finding herself under suspicion by the police, Sadie decides to look into the murder herself as her life spirals out of control.

This has all the requisite elements of the psychological thriller, nothing should be taken at face value, inhabited by unlikeable and unreliable narrators, a host of suspects, and twists galore. Sadie has memory issues and a tendency to blame others, even her children, and wonders if Will was involved with Morgan, or is it possible that Morgan's husband killed her? There is a stalker to add to the mix, the beautiful and volatile Camille, obsessed with Will, feeling she has a prior claim on him, and intent on becoming his wife. 6 year old Mouse's widowed father has married a nightmare of a woman. In an atmospheric narrative, with the weather conditions deteriorating, the locals are suspicious of the incomers, there is intrigue, machinations, secrets and mental health issues. This is a dark, unsettling and entertaining thriller, with plenty of suspense and tension, to keep the reader hooked right up to end, although you are required to suspend your sense of disbelief. Many thanks to HQ for an ARC.

The first 80% of The Other Mrs is breathtaking, the plot is exciting, the characters written well and I had no idea how this mystery was going to be solved.... and then there’s the twist.

. I wasn’t a fan of the twist but it made sense...in a way. What didn’t make sense was the final 10% of the story which left me frustrated and irritated. It didn’t make any sense and I literally stopped reading because I was so annoyed!

A bit of a flop really.