Dr. Sadie Faust, her husband, Will, and their two sons have just moved from Chicago to the coast of Maine. They moved there when they became the guardian of Will's teenaged niece after Will's sister committed suicide. It has been a tough adjustment period for all of them, but then their neighbor is brutally murdered. Sadie is freaked out by the whole situation. Their teenage son has something going on that worries Sadie and Imogen, their niece, is in a very dark place that makes Sadie think that their family isn't safe. What is worse is the local cops think that Sadie had something to do with the murder, which is crazy because Sadie never even met Morgan. Will Sadie be able to prove her innocence, find out who killed Morgan, and keep her family intact?
The Other Mrs. was an absolutely brilliant thriller. A phrase being thrown around these days is "unreliable narrator" and there was absolutely no other way to describe Sadie. Sadie Faust was full of contradictions. She was a doctor who let her husband give her pills. She was a highly educated woman who let herself get swept away in fear and paranoia. There are multiple narrators, Sadie, Camille, Mouse, and eventually Will. I couldn't figure out who Mouse was to the rest of the main characters. I wondered if it was the daughter of the woman murdered, but I was wrong. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS. I was really not expecting the way things ended, I am not sure that there has a book in recent memory that surprised me that much.
Bottom Line - The Other Mrs. is one of those books that is going to be buzzed about all year. Mark my words, people will start talking about it at book clubs and in libraries all over the country. Everybody will be asking "Have you read The Other Mrs. yet?" So have you?
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- The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica
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- Pages: 368
- Publisher: Park Row Books
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- Thank you to NetGalley for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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