The Wives - by Tarryn Fisher (Paperback)

About the Book

Includes reader's guide with discussion questions and a Q&A with the author.

Book Synopsis

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What happens behind closed doors never stays hidden for long.

It was supposed to be easy. Thursday would share her husband, Seth, with his other two wives, Monday and Tuesday--two women she's never met and knows nothing about. No questions asked, no hurt feelings. And for a while, the arrangement works...until Thursday finds a scrap of paper with a name--Monday's real name--and an address.

Now Thursday can't stop herself. She wants to know more about this woman: who she is, what she's like...what Seth sees in her that Thursday doesn't have.

She orchestrates a fraudulent friendship with Tuesday to get to the truth, what she really signed up for when she agreed to this marriage. But the more she learns about this other wife--and his mysterious first wife, Tuesday--the more she sees that Seth is not the man she thought he was.

As more disturbing details come to light, it becomes clear that there's a reason why he didn't want the women to meet after all. A very good reason.

One that Thursday never saw coming.

"Nail-biting, heart-clenchingly good."--New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Torre

"[A] lightning-fast plot."--Kirkus

"Suspense fans will be rewarded."--Publishers Weekly

"Some sharp twists."--Booklist

Don't miss The Wrong Family, the next gripping, unputdownable, twist-filled thriller from Tarryn Fisher!

Review Quotes

You'll have whiplash until the very end. The Wives will leave the most sure footed reader uneasy until the last word is read. -Colleen Hoover, New York Times bestselling author of Verity

"I couldn't put it down... Nail-biting, heart-clenchingly good from the start, with characters that you both root and cringe for. I loved every word. Six stars." -Alessandra Torre, New York Times bestselling author of The Ghostwriter

Fisher smoothly inserts moments of self-doubt, longing, paranoia, and triumph into her unsettling narrative as she draws the reader into Thursday's conflicted and increasingly complicated life. Suspense fans will be rewarded.--Publishers Weekly

Fisher is a slick writer who keeps a tight rein on her lightning-fast plot, and the lengths that her feisty narrator goes to in order to reclaim her life make for salaciously satisfying reading...Fisher is a writer to watch.--Kirkus

An intriguing plot takes some sharp twists in the search for the elusive truth in this fast-reading domestic thriller.--Booklist

"Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will revel in The Wives...Fisher's story, like the score of a film, builds to an emotional and psychological crescendo that will keep readers on their toes until its final page. --USA Today

Fisher draws us in with a topic few of us are familiar with-polygamy. However, she keeps us turning the page by having us share the mind of a sympathetic character. It's a compelling story of self-loathing, revenge, and denial that will keep readers up at night with the lights on and their devices off.--BookTrib

"A gripping ride that will keep readers guessing, The Wives...delivers heart-pounding suspense."--Shelf Awareness

"This is a true psychological thriller...[a] shocking ending."--Suspense Magazine