4.5 Stars

When Julie finds out that her husband of 20 years has been cheating on her for over 2 years, she is devastated. The mother of a disabled teenager, she doesn't know where to turn. Does she want to confront him? Pack his clothes and throw him out? She decides to do nothing for the moment as her son is testing for college classes.

Julie gets up early one morning, and seeing her husband sleeping peacefully, she eases out of bed so not to wake him. Actually, she'd like to thrown boiling water on him, but restrains herself. She gets dressed, fixes breakfast, and then takes her son to school.

It is only when she comes home and finds him still sleeping that she feels something is wrong. Thinking he might be ill, she shakes him until she realizes that he's not sick ... he's dead.

From there it becomes a living nightmare for Julie. The police are certain that she killed him, but how or why becomes a mystery ...until they discover he was a cheater. She hires a down on his luck private investigator who seems to do nothing more than cheat Julie out of money. Her son goes to his grandparents to stay temporarily ... but it seems he thinks she killed his father.

Everything she does ... every time she tries to protect her son from the truth about his father ... is all suspect and she winds up in handcuffs and behind bars. With a lawyer who doesn't seem to believe her, she only has one chance ... find her husband's killer herself.

When she delves into her husband's secret life, she find more than she bargained for .. and in more danger than she could ever imagine.

I have read this author's Geraldine Steele series and I found each one of her books well written and. I was hoping this one would be the same .... and I was not disappointed, although at tense moments, I kept looking for Geraldine to raise her head. This is an intense. gripping thriller that starts on the first page and doesn't stop until the very surprising ending.

Many thanks to the author / Bloodhound Books / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this Psychological Thriller. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Julie discovers her husband is having an affair but keeps quiet for the sake of her son. A week later she discovers her husband dead in their bed at home one morning. The police suspect foul play and Julie is the obvious suspect. The problem is Julie went out with friends the night before and can’t remember anything that happened after their meal. She is convinced she didn’t kill her husband and needs to find a way to prove her innocence.

This is a great book with a good plot. Personally I found some of Julie’s decisions really stupid but who knows how you would react when being accused of a murder you are convinced you didn’t commit.

A great book with a few twists and turns plus lots and lots of lies and betrayal.

Not too long after discovering that her husband has been having an affair, Julie Barrett discovers his dead body in their bed. Although she immediately becomes the primary suspect, Julie decides to pursue her own investigation. After all, she is innocent. The question is, to what lengths will she go to prove it?

This makes this book sound promising enough. However, this was rather a slow read to me. For one thing, I felt a disconnect with Julie. I also felt that there were a couple of inconsistencies, like how can her friend phone her while she is hiding out? After all, the police confiscated her cell phone, unless the investigators released her personal property and I just somehow missed it. This book just didn’t draw me in like most thrillers that I read and enjoy. It read very slow most of the time. However, I will give this author at least one more read because I truly enjoy psychological thrillers.

Many thanks to Bloodhound Books and NetGalley for this ARC to review.

An excellent read. A real page turner that had me holding my breath at times and reading far later than I should. Highly recommended read

A woman discovers her husband is cheating. That same night she goes out for drinks with girlfriends. She has too much to drink and her friend assists her to bed. But the next morning she wakes but her husband does not. So begins this rollercoaster ride. I devoured this book in one day - and still the surprises kept coming. One of the more unusual premises, but I was completely sold on the story. I would love to read more by this author.

Julie gets up one morning and gives her son breakfast and takes him to school and it's only when she gets home she realises her husband is still in bed but when she tries to wake him she finds out he is dead. Of course that puts her under suspicion as how could she not know he was dead! then when it is found he was smothered in his sleep Julie is the prime suspect for murdering him and no one seems to believe she had nothing to do with it. She needs to solve the murder herself and employs a dubious private eye to help her but he seems to be more incompetent than helpful.
I enjoyed the book and the change from her usual police novels as this was from a totally different perspective, I did feel that I lost sympathy for Julie as the book went on and some of her decisions were downright stupid but on the whole I could see the reasoning behind them.
I do hope Miss Russell will write more like this.
Thank you to NetGalley for my copy.
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A big thank you to Sarah at Bloodhound Books and Netgalley for my review copy of the book and for inviting me to participate on the blog tour.

I found this book to be a bit of dark comedy which I wasn't expecting. There were moments when I was laughing and then groaning the next due to the actions of the main character.

The first chapter does a brilliant job of reeling you in as we discover that Julie's husband of 20 years has been having an affair and to her almost disbelief she finds him dead the following morning.

We follow Julie has she tries to find out more about her husbands life and his mysterious affair whilst she is also trying to prove her innocence to the police who suspect she has had has a hand in helping her husband along. Julie, bless her, does not make matters easy for herself and seems to lurch from disaster to disaster as she tries to solve what has happened. You do ultimately feel sorry for her as first and foremost she just wants to protect her son.

I found this to be a bit of a slow burner but once the action starts going, it speeds up everything including your reading as you are eager to find out what really happened to Paul.

I haven't read any of the Leigh Russell books but I will definitely have a look at changing that!

Having thoroughly enjoyed the first Geraldine Steel novel I was excited to be given something a little different in the form of a psychological thriller from the same author. Unfortunately I don't think she is quite as strong writing this genre as crime. The story started very well and promised to be exciting, but didn't seem to fulfil its potential. I didn't feel that I got to know many of the characters (it may have been the author's intention to keep the reader guessing by giving away little information about them) but it was still quite obvious who the killer was early on in the story. I found it hard to like or empathise with the main character Julie. She seemed very detached and level headed one minute, then did some very silly things the next. But then who knows how any of us would act in the same situation? Overall an easy to read book and thank you to the publisher for the advance copy.

I have read quite a few Leigh Russell books and always enjoyed them, so I was looking forward to getting started with this one.

Finding out her husband Paul was having an affair took it all out of Julie, after looking through his mobile phone It seems that he's seeing someone called Bella. It seems he's seeing her when he's supposed to be going to his squash game. It seems it's not shuttlecocks that are being played with.

When Paul is killed, it then becomes a case of who wanted him dead, and enough to actually kill him. It's a race against time for Julie to prove that she didn't kill her husband.

This was an interesting read, one of those books where you find yourself really feeling for the characters. Julie was one of those characters that you wanted to help, yet at times you could happily slap her. I found a lot of what she did and the way she went about things a little stupid at times. It was almost like she was just trying to make things worse for herself. It seemed to far fetched.
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​This one was very different from other books i've read by this author. I liked it to some degree, but it wasn't holding my attention throughout. to me as good as I know she can write.

A big fan of Leigh Russell’s Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson series and characters I was wondering if a standalone book would live up to them but the concerns were unfounded. Brilliant plot that twists and turns until, like the main character, you don’t know who you can trust or whom you can turn to, as she slowly uncovers the truth about her husband and fights to keep her son safe and with her. Read in less than a day a book you really won’t want to put down
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A complex thriller with loads of twists and turns. A wife and mother struggles to discover who murdered her husband while she slept.

I would like to thank Bloodhound and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Adulterer’s Wife’ written by Leigh Russell in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Although Julie Barrett’s marriage to Paul has lost the excitement it had twenty years ago, she’s devastated to find out that he’s having an affair with a young woman called Bella. Julie decides to wait to confront him until after their son Dan has taken his exams but on waking up in the morning she discovers Paul’s in their bed dead. The police believe Paul has been murdered and arrest Julie but she knows she didn’t murder Paul, so who did?
The plot was interesting and flowed well making it easy to read, but there was none of the excitement of previous Leigh Russell novels. Half way through I predicted who I thought was the perpetrator and wasn’t far wrong. I found Julie to be a bit wishy-washy and felt like shaking her on occasion, but nevertheless it was an enjoyable book and worth reading.

This is a superb slow burning domestic chiller. The characters are interesting and relatable. I thought I knew who the culprit was early on but was very wrong. The plot is plausible and layered with subtly applied red herrings. I haven't read anything by Russell before but will definitely be reading more from her. I highly recommend this title.

This was not a good fit for me. I found Julie’s actions so unrealistic and the plot was very predictable to me. She spent a lot of time obsessed over her husband’s money and getting rid of his things and not a lot of time actually doing anything. She whined and complained a lot and did some horribly silly things, in my opinion. I received this book from Bloodhound Books on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. It will be released on May 7, 2018.

This is the first book I have read by this author, I know shocking. What an introduction though.

I couldn't help but feel sorry for Julie. Not only has she found out her husband is having an affair, he then dies. Obviously the fact that she is the closest person to her husband, she becomes the main suspect.

It really surprised me how some of the closest people in Julie's life react to her. Goes to show you don't really know people until something bad happens. I was as frustrated and as angry as Julie was. The police seem to be more than useless looking at no one other than Julie herself. This forces Julie to take matters into her own hands to try and get to the bottom of her husbands death.

This is one of those stories that has you second guessing and not knowing who to really trust. Sometimes I wished Julie would leave well alone as she seemed to be making things worse. The more she digs though the more secrets and lies unfold.

The Adulterer's Wife is a dark and brooding read that had me hooked throughout. It certainly kept me guessing right up until all is revealed. Will certainly be reading more by the author. A must read for fans of psychological thrillers.

Julia is devastated to find out that Paul, her husband of almost 20 years, has been having an affair on her. Her life is flipped completely upside down though when she wakes up one day to find him dead in their bed. This thrilling book is full of secrets and lies as she tries to find out what happened to him and clear her name.

This is the first Leigh Russell book that I have read but I will definitely be adding others to my to be read list! She had me hooked from the beginning and it was extremely hard to put down.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloodhound Books for the free advanced readers copy e-book in exchange for an honest review.

The Adultery Wife is a book with great possibilities but falls completely flat. Leigh Russell has too many wasted characters that could have been more than a name on a page. The thriller part of the story is giving away near the beginning leaving readers feeling bored. Instead of psychological thrillers readers are giving a mess of characters, plot that falls short of its potential and bland characters.


Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher Bloodhound Books for the advance copy of Leigh Russell The Adulterer's Wife.

A story about an adulterer and the wife who,had no idea about it. She loved him and thought she had the perfect husband.
Then one morning she got out of bed took her son to,school, and found her husband dead in bed, she had slept with him all night. Not knowing,
Then the mistress died, and the wife was accused of murder, it then went from bad to worse.
The police were convinced she was the murderer so did her son and her husbands parents.
The end was very spectacular.

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A good slant on a familiar storyline the plot was plausible and the characters interesting l thought the final quarter of the book was a little rushed to tie up the loose ends but it was a book l enjoyed

3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book, but was missing something. The writing was great, characters well developed, but I felt like it never got to that place I love thrillers to go, and I truly was expecting it too. Definitely one worth reading, but wish there was a bit more thrills in it!