‘I’m sorry, Sam’s not available,’ says the woman who answers my husband’s phone. I can’t place her voice, so I politely ask who she is. Her answer sends my world spinning out of control: ‘I’m his wife.’
I know I want to marry Sam the moment I meet him. After I lost my beloved mother so suddenly, this charming, softly spoken architect with his deep-brown eyes is just the fresh start I’ve been searching for.
I’m delighted to be expecting our first child before we’ve even had a chance to plan a honeymoon. I want our family to work so I try to ignore his long work trips. I turn a blind eye to the private calls he takes and I listen to his excuses about why the money keeps disappearing from my bank account. After all, he has no idea what I’ve been doing in our house whilst he’s away or how I really made that money.
Then I find out Sam’s got more to hide than I ever imagined was possible. Because my husband is leading a double life. He’s already married to someone else.
But what Sam doesn’t know is that he’s not the only person keeping secrets.
And he has no idea how far I’ll go to protect myself…
A totally unputdownable, twisty, will-leave-you-gasping story of marriage, guilt and lies. If you love Lisa Jewell, Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins, you will not be able to sleep until you’ve finished every last page of The Bigamist.
Rona is the bestselling author of psychological thrillers published by Bookouture. She loves to turn domestic storylines on their head to keep her readers guessing what the heck is going on.
She has been a bit of a nomad during her adult life, moving around the north of England, before settling in Snowdonia, North Wales where she brought up her family while working as a business mentor. She now lives on the Isle of Man with her little nutter of a Border Collie, Maid. You’ll find all the places she’s lived in her stories!
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My thoughts: no one in this story is really who they seem, Sam, Faith and Emma are all carrying secrets, some much darker and more twisted than others. In a way they all deserve each other, they’re not nice people.
Marrying Sam is a pretty intentional thing to do, considering what Emma’s hiding but Sam isn’t to be trusted and neither is his sister Faith. They’ve got a past no one would be proud of.
As they try to keep everything hidden, events start to overtake them and things begin to surface, there’s some suspect paperwork in Sam’s office, paintings that belong to Emma show up in one of his client’s homes, Emma’s phone is full of things she can’t let anyone see and Faith is always popping round uninvited.
Things go from bad to worse very quickly and now they all need to work out their end game and how to evade the police, who’ve started asking questions. But who will survive the deadly game they’re all playing and what will the cost be? Gripping and full of sudden twists and turns, this is a clever thriller with deadly consequences.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own
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