NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Coming to Netflix! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY · PEOPLE MAGAZINE · MARIE CLAIRE · POPSUGAR · BUSTLE · SHEREADS · HELLOGIGGLES · and more! A woman is drawn into a mysterious web of secrets in this twisty whodunnit from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling … and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to a coastal island in Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie.
But it’s not just Morgan’s death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night. But Sadie must be careful, for the more she discovers about Mrs. Baines, the more she begins to realize just how much she has to lose if the truth ever comes to light.
“Altogether unpredictable.” –Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author
Don’t miss Mary Kubica’s upcoming novel, Local Woman Missing, and look for her other pulse-pounding thrillers:
- The Good Girl
- Pretty Baby
- Don’t You Cry
- Every Last Lie
- When the Lights Go Out
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It was a bit depressing, but I couldn’t put it down.
I checked this book out from the library with a recommendation of my Brenda Novak book club. I have to tell you that usually during the reading of a book I figure out all the plots and subplots by about 3/4 of the way through. This one was a total shocker for me as I did not figure it out until the last couple of chapters when they told me what was going on.
The story takes us through a family and all that they have gone through, kids in trouble at school, mom at trouble at work, dad supposedly has had an affair and a death brings in another child who is having problems of her own.
At times I thought it dragged somewhat but the overall story was a fantastic one. The way we travel with the family and see how they handle a bunch of different emotions and problem solving and how we can really feel sorry for the wife as she has to deal with all the changes and upheavals. The new person in the family defiantly is not please that they have moved in with her after her mothers passing and is extremely hostile and angry.
But the unexpected twist near the end will have you just shaking your head and wondering why you did not catch it earlier. Mary Kubica has done a fabulous job of hiding what needs to be hidden as does the family.
This is a must read story you will not be disappointing!!!!
Small town Maine seems like a great place to start over for Will and Sadie. They have moved from Chicago when Will’s sister dies and they move their to be guardians for their niece. But Sadies doesn’t feel safe not when the house they live in is in disrepair and a neighbor is found dead shortly after they move in. As the new family in town, they are viewed with suspicion and Sadie worries that as the mystery of the death deepens, she may not want to know the truth and how it connects to her family.
Mary Kubica does it again with complex characters in the midst of challenges and change. Suspense, concern, infidelity, and wondering about the reliability of narrators all comes to a head in this uneasy tale of starting anew.
This book was amazing. It had me right up until the end. Amazing. I love your writing!
This book introduced me to a new author and I like her. I am now starting a second book by her.
I don’t know how I feel about this book. I was so irritated with the main character most of the book but then when everything comes together it almost makes perfect sense. A female doctor who husband sister kills herself leaving a teenage daughter whom they never meet now they have full custody of who is not happy about anything. The husband just got caught having an affair and the oldest son is very troubled.
In THE OTHER MRS., Sadie’s family moves to an island off the coast of Maine for a fresh start, but their new life becomes endlessly complicated when their neighbor is found dead in her house—and Sadie, who has never even spoken to the woman, becomes a prime suspect. I was hooked on this book from the very first sentence: “There’s something off about the house.” From there, the sense of something eerie and sinister lurking on the periphery never let up. This was a riveting page-turner with a deliciously remote setting and plenty of creepy and suspicious characters. At about three-quarters of the way through, I actually gasped, thinking, “Is Mary Kubica doing what I think she’s doing? If so, this is brilliant.” Turns out, she was, it is, and even still, she had more explosive surprises in store. I definitely recommend this thrilling, twisty read.
Part Gone Girl part She’s Come Undone, this dark, psychological thriller was really well written.
In it, we’re introduced to Sadie, a physician who along with her professor-husband, Will, and two kids, leave Chicago to start a new life in Maine. Bad things happened in the Windy City but we’re not sure what at first. Unfortunately, after a murder in their tiny, new island village, those same dark secrets from the past begin to break apart the family’s ties.
Though I figured out major twists partway through the novel (I assume the author wanted us readers to due to the number of hints she gave), another one awaited me at the end. This one was shocking…and a little perplexing. I can’t share more without giving away too much of the story though.
If you’re a fan of books by Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, chances are good you’ll enjoy The Other Mrs. Note: sensitive readers may want to bypass this as there is animal/child abuse involved.
You’ll think you have it figured it!
I don’t like writing bad reviews, but being honest with reviews is essential, so it happens. Less than halfway through the book, I’d figured out what was going on, and that ruined it for me. I’ve enjoyed other books where I put the pieces together sooner rather than later but liked the book all the same. For this one, it was not the same. Sadie, the main character is not likable, and while it’s good to have unlikeable characters, we at least need something to like about them to carry us through the story. I think it’s good Netflix picked it up for a future movie and plan to watch it, because I think it would work better in that format. Overall, the writing didn’t grab me, and the characters were not fleshed out enough to care about any of them.
This may well be Kubicas best book yet. While I was able to figure out some of her twists and turns before they came to light on the page, the BIG twist completely shocked me. I knew SOMETHING was up but I just couldn’t put my finger on what it was so when it hit the page I had to literally pause, rewind the audiobook and listen again to make sure I was hearing it right. The only thing keeping me from giving it the full five stars is how long it takes to get to that point where the reader goes WOW. I almost never DNF a book but I almost did on this one and I would have regretted it if I hadn’t kept going to that final reveal.
Mary Kubica nails it again! With every page of the brilliant THE OTHER MRS., I fell deeper into this creepy, atmospheric, twisted story of a couple who re-locate to a small town where their new neighbor is murdered. Gripping, taut, and shocking, it’s a masterful, spellbinding suspense that I could not put down.
Excellent book, unpredictable.
A good book but definitely not this writer’s best work. Slow to start and very predictable throughout.
The main character has many challenges and the book is full of twists!! It’s dark and engaging!
This book is all plot! It doesn’t slow down. I enjoyed the creepy, suffocating atmosphere and the fact that the characters were essentially trapped on a small island off of the Maine coast. At the end, one of my hunches turned out to be right, but I did not guess who the killer was.
Surprises from start to finish! THE OTHER MRS. by Mary Kubica was attention grabbing from the first page, and though slightly disjointed occasionally between characters, it takes a reader on a diabolical ride to discover who really killed the lady next door … and what’s really going on inside this new house.
Sadie Foust paints a picture of herself that keeps a reader entrenched to see what’s going on with her husband, her sons, her niece and most of all with the house that felt off from the second they moved in.
Will Foust comes across as the doting husband and father, but she hints at another side to him. Does he know more about the neighbor than he proclaims?
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a thriller that keeps you guessing from start to finish with intricate plot points, intense characters and diabolical terror!
I don’t like giving too many details of a book in my review so here it goes… this book definitely took twists that I didn’t see coming and I really liked that. Towards the end I didn’t want to put it down!