Two Dead Wives

I just finished Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks and here are my thoughts.

When a wife is murdered, isn't it nearly always the husband? What happens when there are two husbands?

Having two lives and two identities didn't do Kylie any favors in the end when she is kidnapped and the police are now looking for a body. The case has gripped the nation and the whole affair won't end for either man.

DCI Clements is on the case and she knows that the dark side of humanity can make you a person do some unspeakable things.

Stacie Jones is recovering from a serious illness, being nursed back to health by her retired GP father. Can their lives remain reclusive?

How are these families all linked and how much danger are all they all in?

I didn't love this book. I don't mean it was a bad read but it was really a slog in places. I don't think it needed to be this long and some of the POVs were lengthy and there wasn't much balance. It is a sequel to another book which answers the one question I had about why Kylie would lead a double life and I hated that I didn't know that before I started this one because they don't answer that in this read.

I also felt the book was a little on the predictable side and all the excellence was in the last ⅓ of the book. The writing was good, it just felt like a lot of padding to a book that really didn't need it. There was some real magic in here and some real waste of paper real estate.

It was hard to care about any of the characters except the Oli who I did invest my time in. I don't know if it's because it is a sequel and you do need to read book 1 or whether it just wasn't for me.

I would definitely try this author again though.

3.5 stars

Thank you to @htpbooks and @netgalley for my gifted copy

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