Sally HepworthMystery · Domestic Thriller·b. 1980
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.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
- Apesar do final ser aberto, e a gente não descobrir quem foi o responsável pela morte do Ian, a autora deixa uma pista no final que pode fazer com que a gente entenda como realmente aconteceu ! E como ela mesma disse, alguns crimes precisam ficar sem solução.
- <div>Middling for me,too much going on.</div>