The Wife Between Us

Vanessa has lost her marriage to Richard, a charming and successful hedge fund manager. The years with him left her isolated and doubting her own judgment. She now lives with her aunt and works in retail, and she cannot stop watching him.

Richard is preparing to marry a woman half Vanessa's age. Vanessa is certain the wedding has to be stopped, and she is ready to pay whatever price that demands.

The book is a psychological thriller told across converging timelines. The structure is the point: the story is not what it first seems, and the picture of the marriage and the divorce shifts as the timelines draw together. Expect a series of reversals about the couple and about the people caught between them, and to revise earlier assumptions more than once.

Reading it means following an unreliable-feeling vantage point, where a fixation drives the plot and every account may be incomplete. The tone is tense and the pace is built on revelation. The novel appeared in 2018 and was written by two authors working together.