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I stayed up until 1 am reading this book. I tried going to sleep, I really did. But every time I closed my eyes, I just kept thinking about this book, and I had to know how it finished.
Sarah and Jane’s just moved back to James’s hometown. Sarah hears a buzz right away that her husband is blamed for a young girl's death. This book had me flipping the pages to find out what REALLY happened to Lucy. I thought the story was going one way- then BAM, what a twist!
I can’t wait to read more books by Kerry Wilkinson. Many thanks to the author, Bookouture and NetGalley for a complimentary copy of the book. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.
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Wow! Another absolutely brilliant, fast paced, unputdownable story from this amazing author! I loved this one and very highly recommend it!

When word hits that a new book from Wilkinson is out, I'm on it! He's one of my "need to read right now" authors....his books are just so good!

This was goooood and had me hooked! Did he, didn't he? I had so many questions I needed answers for and couldn't wait...I binged it, rather quickly!

The twists, turns and THAT ending had me blindsided so many times. The suspense, the tension, it was real...so much so that I needed a rest after reading...the old ticker was pounding!

Fast paced, engaging and a brilliant page turning thriller.

What happens when you can’t trust the man you’ve married?

Good pacing with short chapters, reading this one flew by, a plus. Twenty years ago Lucy went missing and in a series of pretty well-paced reveals, Sarah quickly learns of her husband’s dubious past and begins to seriously question if he’s the man she once thought he was, as anyone sensible would do, another plus.

The move to James’ small hometown Carnington is not the idyllic, friendly community, and safe haven she had envisioned for their son Oliver. Dark secrets come spilling out almost instantly, throwing Sarah’s life into upheaval.

Danger lurks, danger Sarah can’t even begin to suspect or imagine—did James kill his best friend Lucy all those years ago? Most in town seems to think so, but what is the truth?

I will admit, I’m incredibly conflicted reviewing “Your Husband’s Fault.” On one hand, this story hits some crucial marks: a suspenseful well-developed plot, well-written, multiple subplots with backstory for depth, and it tied up almost everything. On the other hand, some clunky repetitions paired with how certain threads of the story resolve, is much too convenient, and detracted from the reading experience.

What is not tied up is where I was left feeling conflicted, annoyed, and unsatisfied.

Ambiguous conclusions don’t settle the best for me in most cases, and this was one of those cases.

3.25/5

I absolutely enjoyed reading this. Will definitely be recommending. Kept me really hooked I'll love to reread again

Reading in Between the Wines book review #50/125 for 2025:
Rating: 3 🍷🍷🍷
Book: Your Husband’s Fault
Author: Kerry Wilkinson
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Sipping thoughts: Imagine the love of your life, your marriage partner, and your child’s father being called a murderer. And while you find it hard to believe, you are also sensing that your husband is keeping something from you. I did not expect the turn that this story took. It started off as a domestic mystery but brought out some very dark aspects. My head is still reeling from the last few paragraphs. I really enjoyed this book.

Cheers and thank you to @Netgalley and @Bookouture for an advanced copy of @YourHusbandsFault.

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This book begins with the soft promise of a fresh start, but it quickly unravels into something darker. Sarah and her husband James move to his childhood village hoping for peace and a quiet life for their son, but the moment she mentions his name to a stranger, something shifts. The air changes. People grow distant. Whispers begin.

The village of Carnington is beautifully written. It feels quiet and safe, but there’s this constant sense that something is lurking beneath it all. That contrast pulled me in. Sarah’s emotional journey is one of my favorite parts of the book. Her growing unease, her fierce protectiveness, and her determination to uncover the truth made her feel so real to me.

The pacing is slow at first, but don’t let that put you off. It builds for a reason. The tension slowly tightens, and when it picks up, it really delivers. I stayed up to finish the final chapters because I needed to know everything.

This isn’t a thriller built on jump scares or wild twists. It’s quieter than that. But it lingers because of the way it explores fear, trust, and how terrifying it is to feel like you’re living with a stranger. If you enjoy character-driven suspense with emotional weight and a slow, rewarding unraveling, I think you’ll love this one.

A special shoutout to NetGalley and Bookouture for this digital arc copy. I enjoyed every bit of this read.

Thank you Netgalley, Bookouture and Kerry Wilkinson for the eArc of Your Husbands Fault.

I have read a few of Kerry's books now and I have enjoyed them all. Your Husband's Fault is a medium paced, well balanced read that doesn't beat around the bush. We have our MFC, Emma who has moved to a small village with her Husband James. It also happens to be James' home town. Almost immediately, Emma is coming across rumours about her Husband. Are they true?

I feel that this book is mainly plot driven but Kerry still builds her characters very well. There are some likeable and unlikeable characters , which combined with the plot twists leads you guessing for a bit. Kerry's style of writing is engaging and keeps you turning the pages. A great mystery with psychological elements.

Melanie Crawley narrated this audiobook and she suited both the genre and pacing of this book.

4 stars

This was an amazing thrillers, unputtable and i couldn't stop reading it as soon as I start it,

A must for 2025. Loved the twists so much

This book was surprisingly good, a real sneaky read. I had never read anything by this author before and knew nothing about the book going except that it was a suspense/mystery book.

It starts with a family that has recently moved to the countryside after living in the city. The husband, James, grew up here and didn't love the idea of moving home. Once there his wife Sara finds out that he is remembered and pretty much hated by almost the whole town because of something that happened when he was a teenager.

The plot moved quickly in this book and I read it in a single day. I also did not pick the culprit at the end which was a huge win for me, nor did I have any clue the side ,mystery was coming. I love a book that surprises me.

This is definitely worth a read if you like fast paced mysteries that keep you guessing.

Now, I don’t know about you, but if my husband was suspected in the disappearance and murder of a close friend of his and decided not to tell me, I’d be pretty concerned. This is the new personal hell that Sarah finds herself in. Having just moved back to the village her husband, James, grew up in her life comes to a screeching halt after her son’s first day of school. When talking to another mom at the drop-off area, she comes to learn that her husband’s real name isn’t James and she is left with, “Don’t you know what your husband did?” Those words send a chill down her spine and even after confronting him, she doesn’t feel any less uneasy. Yes, he admits that his best friend Lucy disappeared 20 years ago and that, yes, he was the last one to see her alive. But despite what the rest of the village believes, he wasn’t responsible for her disappearance. Can she believe him? Can she trust him after he kept this massive detail from his past a secret?

This got super suspenseful at parts and I don’t think I could get past the fact my husband kept that from me. That’s not keeping parking tickets a secret, this is a potential MURDER he kept a secret. I felt the internal struggle Sarah was experiencing and this got super exciting towards the end and had me on the edge of my seat.

Your Husband's Fault by Kerry Wilkinson was a excellent psychological thriller full of twists and turns and excellent characters that will keep you on your toes, from the very beginning till the very end. I just love the way Kerry writes, he has a way of writing that will draw you in from the very first few pages. Your Husband's Fault is Kerry at his best! It was so good I ended up reading it in 1 sitting!

Superb book. . . . . I can not recommend this book enough. . . . . Another 5 star read and a great book for a relaxing day.

Big Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for my ARC.

This quiet little village appears so innocent, but there are some deep, buried secrets and monsters in the closet. Sarah was happy to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life with its noises and everything that goes along with that. What she does not count on is that her husband is infamous in his old hometown. James was the lead suspect in the disappearance of his best friend, Lucy, 20 years ago. They never found her body, but that does not keep her dad (and everyone else in this community) from thinking that James killed her. So the shunning begins. Sarah does not want to believe her husband could possibly be capable of killing anyone, but she also cannot figure out why he never shared this part of his past. The whispers of the neighbors and the clique of moms at the school are whispering and finger pointing, which causes more distress and doubt for Sarah. Sarah starts wondering if she really knows the man she married.

Wowzer! This book was slam full of secrets, mystery and twists that you will never see coming until they slap you in the head with its disturbing reveal. It was the perfect blend of mystery and a little bit of psychological thriller that will have you doubting everyone and suspecting everyone.

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

no spoilers . . . . but what do you think happened in the end? Someone needs to discuss this with me

So many twists and turns in this I felt like I needed a seat belt! There was no building up to the main jist of the story (your husband is a killer) and sometimes this puts me off because I worry that the momentum will die out but in this case it definitely didn't. I was gripped from beginning to end. I always like to guess what happens and always think I've solved it but there was so many surprises in this it completely kept me on my toes!

5 stars from me and I now need to check out what else the author has done!

Thanks netgalley and publisher for my ARC

4.5 stars.
Firstly, as per previous warnings, this publisher is infamous for backstuffing books with bumpf. Advertising and the like. My suggestion is that you, carefully, have a look where the story actually ends before you start. Mine was around the 90% mark... It might save you some angst, forewarned is forearmed and all that!
Anyway... In this book we follow Sarah who has just moved her family to the village where her husband James grew up, escaping the big city and all its dangers. He was a bit reluctant at first but eventually agreed. When we first meet her, she is with six year old son Oliver only as James is away for work - something he does regularly. Her father is helping with the move instead as well as doing a spot of decorating/DIY.
But things get weird quite quickly as, on Oliver's first day at school, Sarah is accosted by someone who asks her if she knows what her husband did? And then a man bangs on her door claiming her husband is responsible for something I will leave you to discover... Suffice to say, these accusations mount up. James' flight home is also delayed by the weather, leaving Sarah to work out what the heck is going on... And then things really escalate...
I will leave you discover what on earth James is accused of and whether he did it or not, suffice to say it's all things gripping and held my attention all the way through. All the way til the end that is, which I did find was a little too much... Spoilers prevent me from qualifying this but basically, it didn't leave me as satisfied as I would have liked to be. But I also appreciate that it's probably a me thing...
Apart from that, all the things I have learned to love and now expect from this author are front and centre. His characters are always brilliant, even if they don't always act as they should! His situation comedy, and people watching skills once again shines, and his absence of any superfluous waffle or padding means that the story gets on with itself rather well.
All in all, a good solid read that I would recommend to fans of both the author and genre. Roll on next time. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Your Husband's Fault by Kerry Wilkinson

A captivating start, fast-paced story and a surprising twisty ending. Here is another wonderfully written thriller by Kerry Wilkinson.

Sarah, her husband James and their son moved to James hometown. A lady asked Sarah mystically, did she really marry to James. A piece of old rumour appeared - the girl disappeared. Was this related to James?

The author successfully drew the reader's' attention from the beginning. The story ploy was not something that I could expect. It kept me guessing the whole reading journey. About 300 pages of thriller, it just took me a day to finish it and ended with a shiver.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Bookouture and the author for my copy..

Pub date: May 12, 2025

This is not the first book I’ve read by this author, and it will not be the last. Wilkinson writes such engaging, fast paced, thrilling, keep you guessing types of books. They are thoroughly enjoying.

We all know that small towns are a breeding ground for rumors and everyone in everyone else’s business and this small town is no different. Sarah didn’t expect it when moving here as she didn’t really know about her husband’s past! Throw in some secrets, a fire, a death, and you just don’t know what you’ll get, and where the story is going to end up! I cannot even imagine how Sarah felt showing up to bring her child to school only for someone to hint that her husband did something bad a long time ago. I really appreciated that the author didn’t make us wait to long for us to find out what that was.

As the book progresses, not only do we find out what that was, but we find out that there’s more secrets that this small town holds. Throw in a twist here and a twist there, and WOW, we get an ending that gives us whiplash! I will say that I predicated one thing happening for the end, but how it happened was not the way that I thought it was going to happen. I also never guessed that a particular character was involved. The ending was really, really good! So go check this one out!

When Sarah and husband James along with their son Oliver move back to his childhood home village from the city, its supposed to be a new chapter in their lives, in a safe, tranquil and friendly community. But when dropping off her son at school on the first day leads to a revelation about her husband's past and they recieve a far from friendly welcome from the community, Sarah realises that this town is far from the friendly community she expected and that the past can never be forgotten.

This psychological thriller was thoroughly compelling from the very start. As the protagonist, Sarah, encounters each new character, the sense of intrigue deepens, and you find yourself drawn into her search for the truth. The story cleverly explores themes of trust, and each character leaves you second-guessing their motives. The plot is filled with unexpected twists that maintain momentum throughout, leading to a particularly thought-provoking and satisfying ending. A gripping and well-executed read.

This was my 2nd Kerry Wilkinson book and it will not be my last! I was hooked from the beginning. Each chapter left you wanting more, which is why this book flew by for me. I had to finish to find out what happened with Lucy. As always, a nice twist!

Great book! Kept me interested from start to finish!! Twists that I did not see coming.
I have really enjoyed the books I have read by Kerry Wilkinson and this was no expectation. I really enjoy his writing style as he can weave a medium plot line and building the characters really well throughout.
Kerry Wilkinson had me enthralled once again.