From Michele Campbell, the bestselling author of It’s Always the Husband comes a new blockbuster thriller in The Wife Who Knew Too Much. Meet the first Mrs. Ford Beautiful. Accomplished. Wealthy beyond imagination. Married to a much younger man. And now, she’s dead. Meet the second Mrs. Ford. Waitress. Small-town girl. Married to a man she never forgot, From a summer romance ten years before. … girl.
Married to a man she never forgot,
From a summer romance ten years before.
And now, she’s wealthy beyond imagination.
Who is Connor Ford?
Two women loved him. And knew him as only wives can know.
Set amongst the glittering mansions of the Hamptons,
The Wife Who Knew Too Much is a decadent summer thriller about the lives of those who will do anything for love and money. Who is the victim? Who is the villain? And who will be next to die?
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The Wife Who Knew to Much is a fast paced mystery/thriller.
Nina the ever so rich wife of Connor leaves an intriguing diary entry which from page one grabs your attention.
Her husband, not so faithful Connor, falls back in love with Tabitha.
Oh Tabitha did you really think it would be smooth sailing? You really made terrible choices.
The pages fly by, you cheer on Tabitha despite how things to start snowball against her.
Not going to give anything else away but grab your copy and settle in for a page turning read.
Thanks to Net Galley and St Martin’s Press for a thrilling read.
The book starts explosively, with Nina suspecting someone wants her dead after she’s caught her husband, Connor, cheating. A wealthy woman because of her first husband, her company is extremely successful. Connor is typed as a philandering husband who wants her money. That plays out from the start with him returning to see his high school sweetheart, Tabatha.
I thought the storyline was fun in the unfolding. Both Tabatha and Nina’s stories are given to us in bits and pieces. Nina’s from the first meeting she had with Connor. The heart of the storyline didn’t kick in until the last quarter of the book and I thought that was unique.
The characters weren’t all that deep, so there was no connection to them at all. Tabatha isn’t much of a character, she has no strong personality one way or the other until she’s under investigation. Only then do we see that she doesn’t know how to keep quiet when people are repeatedly telling her that speaking up hurts her more than staying silent. (Which drove me a bit nuts.)
It took me a while to get into the book, which surprised me considering the way it started. But once I got into it, I was hooked. It’s a fun, well-told storyline. Overall, a fun read. Thank you St. Martin’s for sending this along.
From the moment I finished It’s Always the Husband, Michele Campbell quickly became one of those authors whose books are added to my TBR pile immediately. The two titles that followed, She Was the Quiet One and A Stranger on the Beach, were similarly excellent. Now, with The Wife Who Knew Too Much, Michele Campbell has solidified her position among my favorite authors.
Rich boy meets middle-class girl at his country club and embarks upon a summer fling that becomes a little more. Rich boy can’t bear the thought of giving up his money for the love of the middle-class girl, and so their summer fling is unceremoniously concluded. Some years later, middle-class girl is waitressing when rich boy (now married, still rich, but with his wife’s money instead of his grandmother’s) pops back up in her life (is this orchestrated somehow, or fate?), and the ride truly begins.
“I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death. This is hard to admit, even to myself. For obvious reasons. He’s in love with someone else. And he wants my money.”
Connor’s wife, Nina, is a rich widow whose diary entries we are privy to, detailing what she believes to be the plot between her husband and his mistress to kill her and inherit her millions, and this is what immediately sucked me in to the story, because of course I wanted to know if he/they killed her! The author almost manages to make Nina a sympathetic character, but never quite gets there; she’s quite unpleasant, but she probably didn’t deserve to die.
Tabitha (middle-class girl) can be a semi-annoying character. She makes questionable decisions and justifies them to herself all for her love of Connor (rich boy). Half the time you can almost see the hearts in her eyes. I understand being in love, but being so completely besotted that you disregard some major red flags? That’s something else entirely.
And Connor? Well, Connor’s kind of a dick, while also being clueless in many ways. As a teen, he “loves” Tabby but gives her up for his grandmother’s money. As an adult, he “loves” Tabby but can’t quite leave his rich wife just yet. Come ON.
I do have to say that I saw the big reveal coming, so it was a bit predictable in that way, but everything builds to a satisfying conclusion. See for yourself June 9th!
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for the digital ARE!
Connor Ford and Tabitha Girard were teenage sweethearts for a not-forgotten summer. Years later he walks back into her life and they seem to take up where they left off.
The only problem is that Connor is married to a very wealthy woman; a woman who is manipulative and because of an iron clad prenuptial, won’t hesitate to throw him out without a penny if she finds him cheating.
Things change drastically when his wife commits suicide, leaving him with a free path to being with Tabitha. You know the old saying … be careful what you wish for … you might get it.
(Book Blurb) Who is Connor Ford? Why did he marry Nina? Is Tabitha his true love, or a convenient affair? As the police investigate Nina’s death, is she a convenient suspect? Who is lying and who is telling the truth?
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Major twists and turns keep the suspense high from start to finish. The characters are deftly drawn — it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad. The ending is explosive and totally unpredictable.
Many thanks to the author / St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.