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His Hidden Wife: A totally twisty, suspenseful psychological thriller Kindle Edition

by Wendy Clarke (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The first time you see them, out for an evening walk on the cliffs, you’ll think they’re the perfect family. You’ll see a wife who looks so happy, strolling peacefully beside her husband in his dark winter coat, holding her daughter’s hand. But you have no idea what’s really happening in their house…

If you come a little closer you might hear the way the man speaks to his wife.

You might notice that the woman doesn’t have any close friends. That sometimes her husband doesn’t want her to leave the house. You might wonder if that’s a scar her beautiful daughter is hiding on her neck.

When you read the local newspaper and hear the news that the wife has fallen from the cliffs, you’ll question whether it was really an accident at all.

And when the husband starts dating someone new – a woman with the same long dark hair and big blue eyes as his wife – will you say something this time?

Because someone has to protect the little girl and stop history from repeating itself. And it may already be too late.

A thrilling and twisty tale, His Hidden Wife will keep you up all night, desperate to race through to its final conclusion. Readers of Gone Girl, The Couple Next Door and Lisa Jewell will be hooked.

What readers are saying about His Hidden Wife:

‘A real rollercoaster of suspense, lies & twists. One of the best psychological thrillers I’ve read this year. I made my mind up many times, only to be proven wrong each time. The last 30 pages had me almost holding my breath.’ @raena_reads, 5 stars

‘This book is a highly addictive, fast-paced read indeed!... I read this book in one day… in the end something very shocking was revealed! Do not hesitate when it comes to reading this book! Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘Gasp… yes this book made me gasp out loud!!!! What a great ride. Pulls you in like nothing else. One of the best books that I have read this year. It's over but I don’t want it to be.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘A book to put on your must-have list!… What an absolutely amazing read!… You’ll be racing to the last page… In addition to this five-star read being a little intense with a high level of anticipation, it’s also full of uncertainty, anxiety and rounded out with nerve-wracking tension.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘I double dare you to try to figure this thriller out!… This mind-blowing thriller by Clarke should be the 1st to-be-read thriller of 2021 for you! You will not regret it.’ Nicki’s Book Blog, 5 stars

‘A rollercoaster of twists.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars

‘An excellent psychological thriller. I was so impressed by its fast pace but original plot… I highly recommend this book.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars

‘Wowwwwww this one was fantastic!!!… A knockout! The characters were fantastic and this was such a good thrill.’ Simply Murt, 5 stars

‘One word, brilliant! This book had so many twists I felt dizzy and loved every single minute of it! Another fabulous psychological thriller that had me gripped from page one, and just as I thought I had the plot figured out, another plot twist happened.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘Keeps you guessing from page one… You cannot help but try to figure out who to sympathise with and who is at fault. Trust me though, you will be shocked when it is not at all what it seems.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘Wow, this book has definitely given me all the feels and kept me awake far too late at night. I literally haven't been able to put this one down… This is completely unique to anything else I have read, the plot has captivated me and this is a book I have devoured in just one sitting.’ Little Miss Book Lover 87, 5 stars

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08ML1PBNH
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bookouture (February 4, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 4, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1522 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #255,341 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,887 in Psychological Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #2,830 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
- #3,638 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)

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Wendy Clarke is a bestselling author of psychological thrillers. She started her career writing short fiction and serials for national women’s magazines. After having over three hundred short stories published, she progressed to writing novels. With a degree in psychology, and intrigued with how the human mind can affect behaviour, it was inevitable that she would eventually want to explore her darker side.

What She Saw was Wendy’s debut psychological thriller, published by Bookouture. Since then, she has published seven more, We Were Sisters, The Bride, His Hidden Wife, Blind Date, Childhood Sweetheart, The Night Out and her latest, The Garden Party.

In her previous life, Wendy has published three collections of short stories and has been a short story judge for the Chiltern Writers Group, Nottingham Writers Group and The Society of Women Writers and journalists.

Wendy lives with her husband and step-dog in Sussex and when not writing is usually dancing, singing or watching any programme that involves food!

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Jean

Never Guessed where the Story was Going

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024

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This story was fantastic! Just when I thought I knew what was going on, a new twist would come. Right up until the very last page. Highly recommend!

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R. R.

Psychological Thriller

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2021

His Hidden Wife by Wendy Clarke is a psychological thriller with many twists you will never see coming.

Maya lives with her father in their cliffside home. The same cliffside where her mother lost her life twelve years earlier when Maya was a young child. Now at nineteen, Maya has given up her dreams of going to university to stay close and take care of her father, Stephen. She works at the local care home and although the job might not be what she wanted, it is ideal as it keeps her in the place she most wants to be….close to home. But, it seems Maya is keeping secrets, secrets she has never told anyone including her father. Maya is not the only one with secrets though. Stephen is keeping his own secrets as well as his co-worker, Teresa at the Wellbeing clinic where they both work. What secrets are true and better yet which one of them is telling the truth?

Wendy Clarke really leads you on a merry goose hunt with His Hidden Wife. I was really at a loss for a good part of this book going back and forth wondering who I could trust. I will admit to liking stories where the answer isn’t always right in your face and Clarke did such a fantastic job at keeping you guessing throughout most of the story. I would definitely say this story is very character driven and with that comes a very slow burn moving plot as we get to know all of the major players in the game.

I do admit trying to figure out how Teresa fits into Maya and Stephen’s story especially since the story is primarily told between Maya and Teresa in back and forth chapters. Maya, on the other hand, is not necessarily a character I enjoyed. She is rather dull and I never found myself quite warming up to her at all. She also seemed a little too much involved with her father in a sort of co-dependent and maybe a little creepy kind of way (or at least this is how I felt). Especially when Stephen lets out a little secret about Amy, his new girlfriend who looks eerily similar to maya’s mother. Yeah, that is not weird at all!

If you enjoy a slow burn story, one that will keep you on your toes, confuse you along in the process and keep you guessing all the way till the end then you do not want to miss Wendy Clarke’s newest release, His Hidden Wife.

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Started off pretty slow

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2021

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I normally finish a book in a day or two but this one was really hard for me to get into. I thought it could have moved a little faster. Things finally got interesting at maybe 60%.

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2021

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A twisted story about a family and the people in the family and what they did years ago. It all comes back to bite them as well as the other people past and present. Very good story but hard to figure out who the bad guy is until it is the ending.

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

WOW. The number of twists in this outnumber the ones in a craziest roller coaster. Clarke’s talent is evident in crafting the story with beautiful well-developed characters, who aren’t at all what they appear at the beginning. Usually, readers' suspicions pinned on one or two characters but in this, from the half through the book, my suspicions change at the speed of light, from one character to another, making me look like a fickle minded one.

At one point, I’ve gone cray-cray by suspecting every character, and building up my own theories about each of them, only refuted by Clarke with her brilliantly plotted twists. I couldn’t have guessed them even when my life depended on them.

This story introduces Maya, nineteen-year-old living at a house situated on the cliff top next to sea in Dorset. She couldn’t go to university as she has to take care of her father Stephen, works as an anxiety counsellor. Maya’s mother died by falling from the bluff when she was six years old and Maya was found curling up on the cliff. The death was ruled as accidental. But rumor has it that it might be suicide or someone is behind it. Clarke introduces a set of characters.

From the outset, it was revealed Maya and Stephen are hiding some secrets and Maya frets about the secrets might spill when her father introduces a new woman.

The plotting of the story is truly incredible. Clarke slowly builds tension, tantalizes readers by giving few tidbits only. I was itching to reach the last page so quickly, cursing myself for not able to read fast enough.

The atmospheric location of sea, cliff house, choppy waters added an eerie feeling and spine chilling. The story is an examination of great lengths one would go to protect the loved ones and to take revenge. Loved the great bonding between the parent and child, and child taking care of parents when their roles were reversed.

It warmed my heart reading about wonderful characters and their stories. I wanted to leap into the pages to give a hug to Maya, she is such a brilliant character. It distressed me when she was going through difficulties, decided to forgo her dreams.

Overall, HIGHLY recommend this engrossing, riveting, and unputdownable psychological thriller. Clear your day, before you start this.

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Bootsy

One Terrific Story

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021

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This was a story that was absolutely the best I have read in a very long time !! It was jammed packed with suspense and had me changing my mine constantly as to who was good and who was evil. A MUST read !!!

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Toscana

"The past is something hidden just under the surface"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2023

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Such a brilliantly twisty read, I was captivated from the start. Every chapter took me further into a web and I never knew which spider was weaving it.
Throughout the book, there are doubts and questions about the death of Cheryl: wife of Stephen and mother to his troubled daughter, Maya. She has renounced her decision to study medicine, lives at home and works in an old people’s home, so that she can be close to her father and keep an eye on him.
Enter two more women: Teresa, who works with Stephen in his counselling clinic, and Amy, a fascinating young woman, with whom Stephen has started a relationship.
The memory of Cheryl’s death haunts Maya but there are doubts right from the start in her mind. Has her Dad been honest with her about the circumstances? Maya, present at the scene, has survived the traumatic event with “the pictures Dad had painted for me.” But it’s hard to live up to a memory and she needs answers.
Wendy Clarke studied for a psychology degree and she very cleverly and convincingly takes us into the minds and motivations of these characters.
Teresa has an unhappy marriage and a troubled son and the clinic “is her place of refuge.”
Stephen is a loving father but experiences black moods for days.
Amy looks just like Stephen’s deceased wife and whilst at first Maya resents the relationship she’s having with her father, Amy manages to get close to her and seed doubts in her mind about her father and Teresa. The reader is swayed from one side to another like a tide that ebbs and flows.
The sea is in fact the only constant in this book and there are beautiful descriptions of the Jurassic Coast. Brooding and poetic lines conjure a brilliant backdrop. At the end of the book, Maya sits on her favourite bench gazing out to sea: “… the siren past calling her with sea-weed scented breath…”
I loved all the clever twists. Thankyou, Wendy Clarke, for taking me away from my troubles through your brilliant writing. Five stars, without any doubt.

Peter Dare

Brainwashed

Reviewed in Spain on November 30, 2022

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A psychologist protects his daughter from disturbing memories after her mother's death.When she older she gets confused with some situations that friends and her father's new girlfriend make her doubt his history. A bit predictable.

Elle T

Another fabulous psychological thriller from Wendy Clarke!

Reviewed in Australia on February 23, 2021

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I do love an engaging, twisty, page turning thriller and this one hit the spot! His Hidden Wife is a fast paced suspense, that kept me guessing to the end, one that I did not expect.

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samuel

Enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2021

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Got a bit confusing in places. Perhaps that was just me.