What a fantastic book! I was gripped from the very beginning until the end and didn’t want to put the book down. So much so I ended up reading it in two sittings. There were plenty of twists and turns along the way and lots to keep me guessing (and mainly getting wrong) where the story was going.

Tasha and Aaron live with their twin toddler girls in the village where they both grew up. They live within their means. Alice (Tasha’s sister) and Kyle live in London and are extremely wealthy. As the book begins, Alice and Kyle have ‘switched’ lives for a week, moving into Tasha and Aaron’s house to look after the twins while Tasha and Aaron are in Alice and Kyle’s apartment in Venice.

Part way through the week and they receive a phone call to advise them that Alice is in hospital and Kyle is dead. Was it a burglary gone wrong or did they think Tasha and Aaron were still there.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced read copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

The Wrong Sister is the book I’ve enjoyed the most this year so far and maybe my favourite one by Claire Douglas.
Tasha and her sister are fairly close but lead very different lives. Tasha is married with twin girls and has to be careful with money whilst Alice is a leader in her field, married to the ideal man with no children and live a lavish lifestyle. Alice offers to babysit the twin girls for a long weekend so Tasha and her husband can go to her apartment in Venice and have some long awaited time on their own. Things don’t go quite to plan though as two days in Tasha and her husband are follow around Venice by a man holding a knife and that night someone breaks into their home attacking Alice and leaving her husband for dead. Throwing their lives into chaos and bringing other tragic matters to the fore.
This was a fast paced thriller that I loved from the first page, I thought the characters were well developed and the storyline was original with a great twist that I never saw coming at the end making this an easy and engaging read.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for my copy of The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
Although Alice and Tasha are sisters and share the same beautiful red hair in all other respects they are so different. But the one thing they can be sure of it there love for each other and the bond between them.
So when Alice and her husband Kyle offer to look after their twin daughters for a week while Tasha and Aaron swop and go to stay in Alice and Kyles luxury apartment in Venice, it’s to good to miss.
Their wonderful break is shattered within a couple of days when they receive news that Alice and Kyle have been attacked.
They rush back and find a note addressed to Tasha “IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU”
WHY ? A gripping read.

It took a little while for me to get into it, but after the 4th or 5th chapter I was hooked.

I was apprehensive at first, wondering where the story was going to go. The title obviously hints that it’s something to do with sisters but I couldn’t figure out what that was going to be. Those first few chapters really set the story and looking back I think they were so good at throwing you off the scent of where the story progresses. In a good way.

The bond between the sisters was lovely and I like how it was shown through various characters.

The suspense throughout was phenomenal. I was suspecting everyone and couldn’t pinpoint the why or the who. There were a few storylines that made you suspicious and I think it was meshed together really well.

Short snappy chapters with a gripping story made it a quick and enjoyable read.

I really loved the twist at the end and didn’t see it coming!

Tasha and Aaron are having a much needed getaway to Venice, leaving their twins at home with Tasha’s older sister Alice and her husband Kyle.

She thought she was leaving them in safe hands but she was wrong ….

This was a great page turner right from the start, with us being led to suspect pretty much everyone of something! Rather than a big twist there were a series of revelations which slowly help the reader to piece together all the different elements of the story.

Tasha and her sister Alice have very different lives. Tasha is married to her childhood sweetheart Aaron and live with their twin daughters in a small terraced house. Alice is married to Kyle. They’re highflying, successful and rich with a holiday home in Venice. Alice convinces Tasha and Aaron to spend a week in Venice celebrating their anniversary whilst she looks after her nieces. Although reluctant to leave her daughters, Tasha finally relents. But after a few days Tasha receives a call to say Alice has been attacked and Kyle is dead. They think it’s a burglary gone wrong, but then a but arrives saying ‘it was supposed to be you’.

This is the first Claire Douglas book that I have read, but I doubt it will be the last. It is a thoroughly good read.

Tasha and Alice are sisters who have taken completely different paths in life, though they are both happily married. Tasha was not academically gifted and is still living in the town where she grew up. Now married to Aaron, her childhood sweetheart, she has two twin daughters and a job as a dental receptionist. Alice by contrast is a successful biochemist and married to Kyle who is a rich tech entrepreneur.
Alice suggests a short life swap to give Tasha a break from the twins and so leaving the twins in the capable hands of Alice, Tasha and Aaron set out for a weeks break in Alice’s apartment in Venice. It sounds ideal but things soon start to go wrong in a big way and Kyle ends up dead!

Lots of twists kept me enthralled until the last page. A cracking good read.

I love reading this author’s books and this was no exception. Full of twists and turns to the very end. Highly recommended

I’d like to thank Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Wrong Sister’ written by Claire Douglas in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Tasha and her husband Aaron are staying in Venice for a week while their twin daughters are being cared for by her sister Alice and her husband Kyle at their home in Chew Norton. Just two days into their holiday, Tasha gets a phone call saying that someone has broken into their home leaving Alice injured and Kyle dead. After their return a letter is put through Tasha’s letter-box saying ‘It was supposed to be you’ and Tasha needs to work out who wrote the letter and whether her own life is at risk.

‘The Wrong Sister’ is a well-written intricately woven story of secrets and the lengths a family will go to hide them. I was drawn into the plot from the start and the further I read the more intriguing it became with its believable characters, tension, drama and suspenseful twists and turns. This has been an enjoyable thriller that I’ve found easy to read and impossible to put down. I recommend it to anyone who wants to lose themselves in a story of family secrets and unexpected circumstances, with a conclusion that was surprising and not what I’d been expecting.

I love author Claire Douglas so when The Wrong Sister came up to review I was super keen to get an ARC copy.

We meet married couple Harry and Tasha, since having twin girls their romance has dwindled a bit so they are off to basically house swap with Tasha's sister and new husband Kyle. They are off to Venice and Alice and Kyle are staying in Harry and Tasha's house to watch the kids.

After a strange encounter on an evening out, Tasha is woken to learn about her sister and Kyle have been attacked in their home. Alice is in hospital and Kyle has been killed.

Rushing back Harry and Tasha seemingly have to uncover why this happened in their home. Tasha receives a note stating that the accident which occurred involved the wrong sister and Tasha sets out to discover what really happened. Told through the perspectives of a few different characters, this is a fast paced read.

I did find it quite repetitive in places and slightly confusing at times but still this made for a good read.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author and publishers for allowing me an arc in exchange for my review.

Tasha and Alice are sisters but are as different as chalk and cheese.
Tasha and her husband Aaran go away to Venice, staying in Alice and her husband Kyle's flat wile they look after Tash'a twins.
Then they receive a message to say Kyle is dead and Alice is in hospital.
Who would do this and why is the DNA of their sister who was abducted in their sitting room?

Spine chilling gripping and brilliantly written!! Fantastic thriller, I loved this book from first page to the last!!
Tasha and her husband Aaron are off on holiday for the first time since having their twins 3 years ago, and with Tasha’s mum now living in France, her sisters offer of her beautiful flat in Venice whilst coming to stay with her beloved twin nieces is a dream. As Alice arrives with husband Kyle, Tasha starts to get cold feet about leaving.
The writing is intelligent, the characters brilliant, the twists and turns are amazing, wow! This book has you guessing and refreshingly not predictable.
Really enjoyed this and with so many unexpected elements it was really gripping and fresh.
Highly recommended, loved this book and looking forward to Claire Douglas’s next one!
Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Books for the early read! Just brilliant!!

A book full of secrets, with mad twists and turns. Bit of a wild ride really!
2 sisters, 2 very different couples decide to swap lives for the craic, I mean what could possible go wrong….
A big mix up of mysterious strangers, home invasions and murder set you up for a pacy story.
I liked the characters and found the book a good read.

Thank you so much for the early access! I’ve read 5 novels so far by Claire Douglas so I was so ecstatic to see I’d been approved for this !! Was not disappointed in the slightest, as usual, hooked within the first few pages and only put this book down to re-hydrate & sleep 😂

Well this was all a bit on the bonkers, wild ride side, and there were a few ends not quite tidied up to my satisfaction, but boy was it a wild ride...!
So... Two sisters. Tasha and Alice. Alice has a high-flying career and is married to Kyle, a wealthy entrepreneur, and they have a jet set lavish lifestyle - with no children. Tasha on the other hand married her childhood sweetheart, Harry, and lives, hand to mouth, in a modest house with their four year old twins. Chalk and Cheese but also very close.
Alice can see her sister struggling so she offers to help out by her and Kyle moving into her house and looking after the kids whilst Tasha and Harry jet off to stay in luxury in Alice and Kyle's apartment in Venice. I so need a sister like that, although not what happens next...
Tasha and Harry are having a pretty special time in Venice for the first few days, apart from that strange man who Tasha keeps seeing. Until that is, she receives a phone call to say that Alice is in hospital and Kyle is dead. Killed by an intruder during a home invasion. Their home.
There but for the grace of God etc etc...
And those words do come back to bite Tasha when she receives a note saying that it WAS supposed to be her...
And so begins a flurry of secrets, lies and dysfunctional behaviour that had me on my toes throughout. Occasionally a bit ott and far fetched, but I just rolled my eyes and carried on cos, on the whole, it was entertaining enough to keep me in the story. Yes I was a bit frustrated that there were a few red herrings that I thought were important enough to have been explained away but they were left hanging. Which did irk a tad. But the ending more than made up for it all...!
Characters were well drawn and all played their parts very well indeed. Pacing was good and matched the narrative all the way through, ramping up towards the end as you would expect from a book of this genre.
All in all, another winner from another of my go-to authors. Roll on next time. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I really enjoyed this book. Lots of red herrings kept me guessing. The characters are believable and the plot flows well. I liked the writing style. It’s written in the third person and focuses on three of the characters. Definitely recommend this one. Thank you #netgalley

When Tasha and husband Aaron visit her sister's Venice apartment, it's a chance to reconnect as their twin toddlers are looked after by sister Alice and her husband. But the romantic break is fractured by a threat from a knife-baring local and a phone call from home shatters their happiness. Returning to their daughters, Tasha finds herself in a nightmare of fear, secrets and mistaken identities.

This was a reslly interesting and intriguing book. I loved the character of Tasha, along with her husband as they felt so believable and I really connected both their emotions. The book cleverly alludes to past events including the loss of Tasha and Alice's younger sister many years before, add further intrigue to the plot.

Thanks to Claire Douglas, Netgalley and Penguin for the opportunity to read this as an ARC.

I've read a few Claire Douglas books and enjoyed them and The Wrong Sister was no different.
All of the characters feel honest, well formed and believable for the most part, with unexpected depth to character progression.

It's a clever opening set up, with subtle clues directing you one way when the story actually unfolds in a completely different direction. There's a lot of multi-threaded twists that are well executed, but perhaps one too many 'gotcha' twists for my liking.
Really enjoyed the building and unravelling mysteries throughout, but somehow felt a bit deflated by the end.

An exciting thriller read with twists that keep you guessing till the end! Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for this ARC!

Started off really good and quite menacing and was looking forward to reading all about Tasha & her husband getting followed in Venice by a knife wielding thug while her rich sister Alice & handsome hubby baby sit for Alice & Arrons twin daughters.
It’s an interesting story with also an interlinked tale of their sister Holly who waa kidnapped when she was a baby after their mother left her in her pram to pop into the shop.
It did keep my attention but I guessed everything that was happening and I also had to keep thinking about who’s who as there are a lot of characters swirling about. It’s a nice cosy well thought out mystery yarn rather than a scared to turn off the light thriller.
3.5 stars from me but definitely think a lot of my readers will rate this a 4 star.
Thank you Net Galley & C Douglas for an advanced copy of this book.