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The Guilty Wife

by

Elle Croft

Bethany Reston is a photographer running her own business and all is well until she lands a job photographing a documentary about billionaire Calum Bradley’s life. A straightforward client/photographer relationship begins and all is well until client and photographer merge into one.

Bethany still loves her husband, Jason, but she has also fallen for Calum.  Although professing to love Jason and Calum, Bethany does not reveal to Jason, that she is having an affair with Calum.

One night after a late meeting in a seedy part of town, someone sticks a knife into Calum.  If you guessed that Bethany is the only person to show up on nearby CCTV cameras, you would be correct.  Bethany then spends a large portion of the book avoiding being arrested for a murder she did not commit.  However, readers of crime know all is not going to end well for Bethany.  She eventually is arrested,  tried, and convicted by the dumbest jury ever.

There are parts where I think The Guilty Wife drags a tad and for this reason alone I have reduced it to a four-star read.  However, overall an entertaining read.

I rated

The Guilty Wife

 as a

four-star

read

*** 

At the time of writing my review

other Goodreads readers had awarded

The Guilty Wife

an average of 3.77 stars

 from 5,305 ratings

 and 471 reviews

The Guilty Wife

can be purchased online at

Booktopia, Fishpond and Amazon

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The Other Sister

by

Elle Croft

Elle Croft’s The Other Sister was my second of this author’s books and one of the best books read this year.  Written in a now and then fashion it tells the story of siblings Ryan, Gina, Cassie (decease), their parents and Gina’s beau, Julian.

Having been estranged from her family for many years Gina makes contact with Ryan after their parents retire to Florida and soon moves into the family home with him.

Gina is not  happy in her work at Channel 8 and soon finds a way to gain some notoriety by live streaming her report of a body she discovered of a woman’s body in an alleyway.  Although not popular with her boss and colleagues Gina’s report sees the Station ratings soar.  As news of the murder begins to fade along with the ratings, Gina discovers another body.

And it is here that the plot tends to thicken.  Many believe Gina is the murderer?  Or perhaps it is Ryan?  Or could it be Julian? Or someone else entirely!

To add anything else will spoil the plot entirely.  A book well worth reading, and perhaps the best mystery I have read this year.

I rated

The Other Sister

as a solid gold
5 star read.

At the time of writing my review

other Goodreads readers had awarded

The Other Sister

an average of 3.84 stars,

from 562 ratings

and 80 reviews.

 

The Other Sister

can be purchased online at

Booktopia, Fishpond and Amazon