My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry

My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What if your life was built on a lie?

When lawyer Lily marries Ed, she's determined to make a fresh start. To leave the secrets of the past behind.

But when she takes on her first criminal case, she starts to find herself strangely drawn to her client. A man who's accused of murder. A man she will soon be willing to risk everything for.

But is he really innocent?

And who is she to judge?

An intriguing interesting tale about love, deception, lies and revenge. It centres around Lily and Ed who marry within weeks of meeting each other. Lily is a newly qualified solicitor and Ed works for an advertising company. Lily is thrown into her first criminal case defending Joe Thomas a known offender and Ed whilst hating his day time job, spends all his time drawing and dreaming of becoming a great artist.

Lily learns that Ed married her on the rebound only weeks after their honeymoon and this along with the reason why ( sorry no spoiler) set the wheels in motion for the secrets and lies that are to follow. With her marriage teetering on the edge of disaster they encounter their neighbour and her daughter Carla who they agree to look after while her mother works on Sundays.

The book is written in two halves the first is about Ed and Lily's early life then we go to 15 years later and how Carla turns up again in their lives and what happens from there. It is very tightly interwoven and a lot of good surprises along the way. I did guess most of them but some were a surprise. I did think the book was very long but really it needed to be so keep going to the end. Good levels of pace when needed with characters that were flawed but realistic however really I didn't like any of them but needed to know how it all panned out.

This one gets a well deserved 4.5 stars from me it would have had 5 if I could have connected more to the characters but they came across as cold and calculating I had the detachment of a 'rubber necker' - no emotional connection but a burning desire to find out more. Rounded up to 5* for Amazon and Goodreads.

I would like to thank the publisher for sending this in exchange for an honest review.