3.5 stars

This was a fun, quick and entertaining read. I will say that I didn’t connect well with the characters, and the plot motivation seemed to strain credibility. This was a bit of a distraction at times, but over all I did enjoy the book.

My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is a very over the top dramatic popcorn thriller with a whole lot of unlikable characters, but a very lovable dog. It’s broken into two timelines and has several POVs so you do have to pay attention to the chapter start to see when/who you’re following. There was a lot of repetitive internal thought (never my fav) and there were some aspects of the plot that didn’t really make sense to me. It has short chapters and is a moderate to fast pace, which made for a quick read. I was able to predict most of the plot but there a few things that surprised me. It’s not my fav by the author, but it would be a great book for the pool or beach when you want something easy to read.

Thanks Scarlet, Penzler Publishers and Netgalley for the DRC!

Kim is struggling to make ends meet when she is approached by a stranger about facilitating the murder of a guest at the country club she works at for a large sum of money. All she would need to do is slip a pill into the drink of a long ago boyfriend. Initially, she agrees but gets cold feet. However, the man's current girlfriend mysteriously dies during dinner that same night forcing Kim to wonder who wants both of the them dead and why. Lot of well timed twists that will keep you guessing.

I love Jaime Lynn Hendricks’ brain. With Their Double Lives, she has created another fun, fast thriller. Kim and PJ are excellent foils and I loved reading both of their POV’s. It’s always fun reading how the rich completely don’t think the rules apply to them and how murder and revenge is the solution to their problems. I kept waiting for the next twist and turn and I was never disappointed. Another thing to note is that I always love how sarcastic and biting Hendricks makes her characters. It speaks to my soul.

I devoured her last book-A Lovely Lie. So when this became available-I knew I needed to read it!

This was SO good!!! This is such an easy, quick read. You will find yourself wanting to keep reading. I think one night I put off eating dinner until almost 10pm because I just wanted to keep reading!!!

The title is perfect for the book!! The intertwining secrets & the character development is pure perfection. Multiple POVs but well organized & easy to follow. So much deception!!!! I loved it.

Bravo!

Twisty, twisted, and intertwined! Another riveting book by Jaime Lynn Hendricks, Their Double Lives is impossible to put down. For lovers of suspense, author Hendricks delivers the perfect read.

A thought-provoking double premise: What would you be willing to do to save the life of your beloved pet? How far would you go to get revenge for the death of a loved one? Two women, their all-consuming goals, and the man who connects them set the stage for this thriller in which characters aren’t who they claim to be. The title says it all. Double lives. Two identities, two personalities, and the mix of past and present lives lead the reader down a winding path with shocking revelations at each turn of the page.

A delicious blend of third and first-person points of view, along with the past and present tense, provides an overall picture of the plot while delving into the psyches and motivation of the main players. And just when you think you’ve got them figured out, another bombshell drops. Murder never goes quite the way it’s planned.

A fast-paced ride with chapter after chapter of cliffhangers, Their Double Lives is a delightfully wicked murder plot that will keep you guessing right to the last page. Don’t bother starting until you have a long block of uninterrupted reading time available.

Just when I think Jaime Lynn Hendricks has thought of everything - think again. This one is deliciously entertaining. It's fast-paced and full of twists, making it my new favorite JLH book! I am especially glad the author loves dogs so much ;) I hope we don't have to wait too long for her next book, because I'm obsessed.

Kim, a waitress at a posh country club, is offered a chance to save her dog who needs an operation to save his life. The problem, she is asked to spike the drink of Anthony, her former boyfriend, and a guest at the country club with his new fiancee. When PJ, the fiancee dies at their table, the same night, Kim knows something else is amiss. We hear from Kim's point of view in the present and PJ in the past, Thank you Jaime Lynn!

Thank you to Penzler & Scarlet for the gifted book!

Wow-Jaime Lynn is back 👏👏

Her books are insanely easy to fly through, but insanely hard to predict! The curve balls in this one were CRAZY!

I think I have whiplash from these characters and THEIR DOUBLES LIVES!

Even the ending has me second guessing everything I thought I knew about everything!!

Can't wait for more Jaime 👏👏

f you’re looking for a beach read/mystery, grab this book. This is a fun one to go in blind and see where it leads you.
Messy characters? Check. Indecent proposal? Check. Unreliable narrators? Check. Can’t put it down and need to get to the next chapter immediately? Double check. I devoured this book.
Thank you to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers|Scarlet for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

4.5/5

My friends on Instagram have been raving about this book and author so I had to give it a try. Well…they were right. I loved this book and can’t wait to read this author again.

This was such a fun popcorn thriller. Multiple points of view, dual timelines and a cast of characters that will keep you turning the pages. There were so many secrets, twists and turns that I had a hard time figuring out who The Stranger was. I loved/hated the different characters at different times. They slowly revealed their true self. The ending was so satisfying. Fast paced, quick read.

Thanks to NetGalley, Penzler Publishing/Scarlet Suspense for this ARC. This is my honest opinion.

Jaime Lynn Hendricks does it again! Their Double Lives is a fast-paced psychological thriller packed with secrets, shifting narratives, and enough deception to make your head spin — in the best way.

The characters? Messy, manipulative, and impossible to trust — which is exactly what makes them so fun to follow. Hendricks keeps the tension high and the pages turning. I genuinely didn’t know who to root for… or who was about to stab whom in the back (metaphorically… mostly).

Docked a star only because one or two late-game twists felt a tad over-the-top, but hey — when you're this entertained, who's complaining?

If you love thrillers where every chapter ends with “Wait, WHAT?!” — add this to your TBR. And maybe sleep with one eye open.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc. Everyone loves a good old revenge story. This seemed more like a beachy read, rather than an intense thriller. The characters weren't as well rounded as I'd hoped, but overall a good story. And you can see why the main character did what she did

Their Double Lives is a fast-paced, twisty and smart thriller that kept me hooked from start to finish!
Kim Valva would do anything for her dog, but does that include killing someone? She can't afford the life-saving surgery her dog needs on her salary as a graphic designer and part-time waitress at a New Jersey shore country club, so when a mystery stranger approaches her with a proposal that she slip some poison into a new member's meal when she serves them at the country club in exchange for more than enough money to save her beloved dog, Kim decides she has to do it. However, when the target turns out to be her high school sweetheart, Tony, there with his fiancee PJ, can Kim still go through with it? The story is told from multiple perspectives, primarily focusing on Tony and PJ's romance and alternating between past and present. The pacing of the story and timing of critical information being revealed was excellent. The characters are well developed and their perspectives so clearly presented that I found myself constantly changing who I was "rooting for".

Thanks to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for an advanced reader copy of Their Double Lives in exchange for my honest review.

Wow, wow, wow! Jaime Lynn Hendricks does it again. Always delivers edge of your seat thrillers. 5 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟.

This was a very intense read, I felt unsure of who to trust and definitely felt so immersed in the book.

**Thank you to Penzler Publishers and NetGalley for the eARC of this twisty title!**

Their Double Lives is a fast-paced thriller with multiple timelines and multiple POVs. Most thrillers ask the reader to suspend disbelief to really get into the plot but this book asks a lot of it's readers. I had to work pretty hard to look past the flaws and motivations of some of the characters which took me out of the store a bit.

Overall, I would consider this a great beach or plane read as it was twisty and the pacing was perfect. I would try out other books from this author in the future!

Perfect. Perfect. Perfect! This was the best mystery I've read in such a long time. I think fans of early Riley Sager will absolutely love this book, or even fans of Nita Prose. Such a fantastic read, that I devoured in one day. over ten hours. A feat I have never done in my life. Not even for social media.

"𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞...𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐠, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤...𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟*𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫?"

Kim's life is a disaster. The man she thought she would marry cheated on her and she has to supplement her income by waitressing at an elite New Jersey country club. But Kim is facing something even worse than serving overpriced cocktails to demanding Botoxed clients--her beloved dog is on borrowed time, in desperate need of a life-saving surgery.

A nondescript envelope arrives at her apartment with her name on it. Inside, cryptic instructions tell her to put a substance in a new member's drink that night, and she'll be handsomely rewarded. She weighs the life of her beloved dog vs. the life of a stranger. The dog wins.

However, when Kim shows up at her at her shift, to her shock and horror, she realizes she knows the target--it's her ex-boyfriend Tony from high school with quite the checkered past, who has reinvented himself, made millions, and has a gorgeous fiancee named PJ on his arm. Realizing she can't go through with it and panicked over losing the money to save her dog, she doesn't have time to consider her next move because PJ suffers a violent death at the dinner table in front on stunned onlookers and waitstaff.

Don't read the whole synopsis of this book! I rarely go in blind, but I'll read anything this author writes and trust that I'm going to be entertained. I didn't know the motivation of one character in particular, and that made the book so much more thrilling to me. Filled with betrayal, deception, and with her snarky brand of humor (looking at you, Carla!) THEIR DOUBLE LIVES is going to be one of the top thrillers of 2025.

“The Stranger” wants Anthony dead tonight, and desperate country club waitress Kim is willing to take the job for a payday that could save her beloved dog and change her life. But here’s the kicker: Anthony isn’t just any guy; he’s Tony, her high school sweetheart! Things take a dark turn when it’s not Anthony who ends up dead, but his fiancée, PJ.

These characters are absolutely riveting. They are all conniving, manipulative, and deceitful, with each one having their own agenda. The mystery unfolds piece by piece, perfectly timed to keep you guessing. I loved how the twists are cleverly placed and impactful.

Audiobook Insights
I did an immersive read, reading the ebook while listening to the audiobook. Narrator Emma Love delivers an outstanding performance. Her skillful tone and pacing create a growing sense of intrigue as the plot thickens. Each character has a distinct voice, and the accents added an extra layer of enjoyment. Love's narration made this an entertaining listen!

Their Double Lives is the ideal summer beach read. It’s a twisted cat-and-mouse game packed with secrets, lies, unreliable characters, and murder. Hendricks truly delivered with this twisty, fast-paced, and suspenseful thriller.

Thank you to the publisher and Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse for a free copy of this book.