For Fable’s thriller lovers book club this months read was; The other Mrs. by Mary Kubica. With three books on my TBR still by this author, this wasn’t one of them but I did want to give it a go.

The book is thrilling, but it’s also a bit slow paced for me. All the ‘exciting’ stuff happens near the end. I was a bit of a brain breaker, is that a thing in English? It really was a confusing one this book.

Camille gets saved by a very good-looking guy called Will. She’s about to step into traffic when Will puts out an arm to stop her and just in time because just as he does that a car comes rushing past. With the universe telling her her time hasn’t come yet, she asks Will if he would like to attend a party that night, as her plus one. He agrees. Shame she can’t make it.

Instead of Camille, Sadie is there and Will falls head over heels. A whirlwind romance and Camille is all but forgotten, but Camille hasn’t forgotten about Will; he will Always be hers because she saw him first.

Fast forward to the present; Will and Sadie are happily married and have 2 boys; Otto is 14 and Tate 7 and are the new legal guardians of Will’s niece Imogen who is 16 years. Will’s sister Alice has taken her live due to severe fibromyalgia pain. Not wanting to upend Imogen’s live by moving her to a new city and out of her family home, they decide a fresh start is what they also need after a couple of incidents. So they’re moving their family to Maine so they can live in Imogen’s family home.

Within this story we follow Sadie a lot, but we also get some chapters where Camille comes out to play and we get to read about her and her side of things. Reading Camille’s point of view makes you think she is deranged with capital D, because geez… the things you read are not normal. We get to learn that Camille is a very jealous woman that would do absolutely everything to get with Will. Everything and anything, nothings out of the question. But she does see Will’s kids as kind of a nuisance. Her fantasies are a lot to take in, wondering if what you read is actually happening or it’s all just in her head.

Mouse is a little girl, only 6 years of age and being alone with her dad is all she has known. They have a cute little routine where they eat some special kind of cookies after dinner. Mouse has never known a live with more than just her dad and I mean in a home setting kind of way. Her mother died giving birth, so she’s never known a mother or motherly type until her dad brings home his new girlfriend. He wants Mouse to call her mom and she does because she doesn’t want to upset her father but, in her head, she’ll always be fake mom. Fake mom is nice when her father is around, but when he needs to go on business trips, all hell breaks loose and she isn’t so nice anymore. Mouse has to suffer the abuse of fake mom and it isn’t nice!

Morgan, a neighbor of the Foust’s has been found murdered and it doesn’t take the police long to zone in on them. A husband that has a history of cheating, a wife that is a tad jealous and isn’t always ‘present’, a son who had an incident on his previous school with a knife, Imogen, a dark and angry kid that had just lost her mother… Sadie is on a dangerous path trying to figure out what happened and the end result? Not what you would expect at all.

This was a psychological thriller; my head was making overtime trying to figure it out. About halfway through I thought I had it; and I did, but not the whole picture.

This book was a ⭐⭐⭐,5 read for me.