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At the conclusion, one may hope that all of the characters get their just desserts, although there is one who while seeming to escape, just might not have.
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Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture and Daniel Hurst for letting me read “The Doctor’s Wife” in exchange for an honest review. Drew is a doctor who convinces Fern to move out of the city to a sleepy beach town, but it turns out he has an ulterior motive. There is a lot of telling because both Fern and her husband Drew (that's Doctor Drew to anyone in earshot) are so very proud of their manipulations and secrets. On the surface, it looks like I have it all - the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, perfect life. Drew is a doctor, and he has convinced Fern that they should move to a small town so that he can work less and spend more time with her, or at least that’s the lie he tells his wife.
It's so easy for arrogant Drew to dismiss his wife while he focuses on his stalker-ish wants and needs.
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But Drew has a secret that he thinks is safe, and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned when Fern discovers he’s been cheating in their marriage with another married woman named, Alice. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man.
EXCERPT: As the woman at the window watched the activity on the beach, she knew the body on the sand was going to be the event that turned this quiet seaside village into a hive of activity for several days to come. The other two we do not get to know very well; she is ‘Drews lover’ and he is ‘her husband’ but I cannot picture them well. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. But neither of them can fully enjoy the happiness due to those who live in carefully decorated houses and drive foreign cars. Now it would be teeming with forensic experts, journalists and bystanders harbouring a morbid curiosity.
Take, for example, the details that Drew cheated on his med school exams and partook in malpractice. While definitely not a mindblower, and definitely cliche, this was a very enjoyable and entertaining read. I was lucky enough to have both an audio and a digital ARC of The Doctor's Wife for review and chopped and changed between the two media, enjoying both equally. A domestic thriller that will captivate you as the layers slowly unravel and the juicy secrets are finally revealed.
I guess that there was some connection to his devious behaviors when he decided to not help Rory, but the link wasn’t strong enough.