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Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth is the author of Mad Mabel. Readers looking for her work will find her distinctive voice in this book. It's a good place to start if you're new to her writing.
The Ex-Wives Club
Synopsis
The Ex-Wives Club is a short story by Sally Hepworth, published in 2025 as part of Amazon Original Stories' Alibis collection, a six-story set of psychological suspense pieces about lies, truth, and deception.
Every Friday evening, Anita, Mary-Jane, and Rosie claim the same corner booth in the restaurant owned by the man all three of them used to be married to: celebrity chef Ian Curley. They drink, they eat, and they compare grievances. When Ian turns up dead in his own walk-in freezer, the three women who knew him best are also the three with the clearest motives.
At roughly eighty pages it reads in a single sitting, and it is the longest entry in the Alibis collection. Hepworth keeps the focus on the friendship between the ex-wives and on what each of them is willing to say — and not say — about the night Ian died.
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Characters
Princess AnitaProtagonist
One of Ian's three ex-wives and a member of the Friday-night booth.
Mary-JaneProtagonist
One of Ian's three ex-wives and a member of the Friday-night booth.
RosieProtagonist
One of Ian's three ex-wives and a member of the Friday-night booth.
Ian CurleySupporting
A celebrity chef and restaurateur, found dead in his own walk-in freezer.
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