The Woman Inside is an intense thriller about secrets, revenge, and murder that keeps the reader engaged right until the bitter end!
Told from the viewpoint of a drug-addicted bitter wife and her husband, a story of infidelity, drug addiction, and murder is unraveled. From the outside, Paul and Rebecca may seem like an ordinary and happy couple, but once Paul's mistress begins staking him, their picture-perfect life begins to fall apart.
Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a good thriller!

*I received an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

What a wild thriller! Full of deeply disturbed characters that bring new meaning to the words HOT MESS!

A book chocked full of disturbed people doing despicable things! Adultery, addiction, dishonesty, lying, stealing,stalking.... seriously, what’s not to love? If you are someone who needs to like or relate to the characters in your books this probably isn’t the one for you, BUT if you like to watch things fall apart and people self-destruct this is thriller perfection! It’s kind of like reality television, it’s not like you think these people are upstanding citizens doing amazing things, but they are entertaining people that are just a little south of crazy and you can’t wait to see what they do next!

Rebecca and Paul have been happily married (or so they think) for 20 years... but now Paul is having an affair and Rebecca has a serious opioid addiction, and that’s just the beginning.... these two truly deserve each other they are both extremely selfish, self-absorbed, and manipulative... however when Paul breaks things off with his mistress Sheila, this couple may have met their match... sheila is definitely the type of woman that will boil your rabbit! Yikes just thinking about all the nonsense these characters got up to still makes me cringe a little, but in a good way! This book was just pure madness!

Along with these crazy characters came some pretty wild twists and turns... The story is told from multiple perspectives and from the then and now... my opinions of these characters changed at a rapid rate, I had no idea who was telling the truth or if anyone was ever telling the truth... The ending to the story was so fitting, although somebody really got away with....

A crazy thriller, characters you will love to hate, and enough twist and turns to satisfy any thriller lover! Absolutely recommend!

🎧🎧🎧 this audiobook was narrated by a full cast giving each character their own unique voice...this really enhanced the reading experience!

🎵🎵🎵 song running through my head! This song needs no explanation...

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world, mad world
Children waiting for the day, they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher,…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSHE-iJQ

*** Big thanks to Dutton for my copy of this book ***

An entertaining thriller, with some highly unlikeable (in a good way) characters. Sticks to the basic mystery/thriller storyline we have become used to, with a unique twist at the end.
Rebecca and Paul have outlived the usefulness of their marriage, and things unravel from there. I love mystery novels, so I was fairly confident I would enjoy this. And I did. But it is missing that little something that makes it standout.
Nevertheless, The Woman Inside will keep you reading.

At first, I thought this would read much like other marriage suspense novels, but it turned out to be a wonderful adventurous read! The twist in the end made it worth while. If you read “As Long As We Both Shall Live” recently and liked it, you’ll love this one. Thanks Dutton books for my copy!

I...I don't know if I want to call this a thriller...or an over-the-top black comedy of errors...because as I read the ending, I was both on the edge of my seat and howling with laughter. And I'm not sure I mean that in a bad way?

Here's the deal: the book is a very fast read, and it keeps you interested enough to keep turning the pages, even when you start figuring things out ahead of the characters. Yes, it's fairly predictable...But the fun is in the unraveling of the story. But it's not until the Sheila twist that the story goes down a wildly campy, soap operatic, guilty pleasure path. (And I still don't know how I feel about that twist, even though I know it exists). there's not a likable character of the bunch, so beware if you need a character to root for...because you won't find it here. Also, the final 15 pages are just...a sight to behold.

This book won't be for everyone. But it will be fun figuring out who to sell it to.

I so needed a book that would grab my attention and make me think and this was it. The Hiding Place was just the right mix of who really did what and to whom and will that person or those people get away with it? Who is the real bad guy/gal was a question not answered for sure until near the end so it was fun going back and forth with ideas of how all the pieces fit together.

What kind of marriage did Paul and Rebecca really have? She didn't tell him a major thing like losing her high paying job and he didn't tell her about his fling that kept him occupied when he lost his. Sheila- what is her real story and does it affect this marriage? What about Sasha and Roger? How it all comes together was a story that made me get back up and finish it last night.

2 questions that maybe another reader can answer for me. What is the significance of the chlorine odor and what was the chlorine burn all about? I was left with those questions, but otherwise loved it. Thank you NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Honestly, I didn’t love this one. It was fun as far as backstabbing relationships, pills, lies, rich people problems, etc. Was it far fetched? Absolutely yes. But that’s fine. That’s why I read. However this one had far too many plot twists and was hard to follow sometimes. It jumped around between POVs and time periods and at times I thought I missed something like a page or three because of the plot holes.
Positive note: A good twisted ending for sure.

Thank you #Netgalley, the author and publisher for my free arc in exchange for my honest review.

Rebecca and Paul find each other and seem to be destined for happiness. They have both suffered unbearable tragedies in their formative years but appear to find that elusive stability early on in their relationship.
That changes quickly as time progresses and the reader is privy to that disintegration as the story unfolds.
Scott's writing draws you in the whole way. You hear each participant's perspective which adds to the heightened suspense of the outcome. This is sure to be the next book to be finished in one sitting.

I had a hard time rating this one. On the one hand, the story has great potential with its unreliable narrators and overall sinister feel. There's also a terrific twist late in the book that is really kind of perfect for these characters. On the other hand, the rapid-fire jumps in both timeline and point of view along with several plot holes made for more convolution than continuity. Then we have the characters who take flawed to a whole new level. Other than the detectives, who are actually rather boring, there's not a likable character in the bunch. That, in itself, wouldn't bother me except there's not a redeeming quality in the bunch, not one thing to make me want something for a single character. The story is a combination of domestic thriller and procedural, although the detectives seem more lucky than good, and it covers a variety of tropes in the thriller genre. We get a mix of obsession, greed, revenge, addiction, prevarication, infidelity - I'm sure I'm leaving something out, but my point is that it all felt like the authors were trying a little too hard to get something original and ended up going over the top with it. In the end, I did finish the book, and that big twist toward the end did go a long way toward saving this one for me, but the journey was just a bit too jumbled for the heart-racing thriller I was hoping to find.

I was very excited to read “The Woman Inside” from Dutton; unfortunately, it did not click with me. This tale relies on several unreliable narrators and reveals a piece of the ending at the beginning. It's a domestic thriller, a psychological thriller, and a procedural all in one. It has two mistresses whose names begin with S.
 I feel as if 
E.G. Scott (pen name for a writing duo) tried to tackle a bunch of genres and plot devices in one story - so many, in fact, that no particular one stands out as the strongest.


Rebecca and Paul have been married for 20 years. He is a realtor recently out of a multi year unemployment streak, she is a terminated pharmaceutical rep with a pill problem. They met when she toured a house; she was his mistress; he hasn't quite stopped straying.


The POV changes from chapter to chapter AND moves back and forth between "before" "now" and "after" but it always kind of reads as "now." I found the timeline to be hard to follow in addition to difficulty with retaining the Who's Who of this story.
 I found myself rather confused as I read and needed to flip back and forth through the pages to get a better grasp on what happened when.

I appreciate Dutton and Netgalley for extending this copy to me!

Thank you Dutton and Netgalley for a copy of The Woman Inside for an honest review, publishing January 22/19.

The Woman Inside is a crazy ride. Do not go into this one trying to figure anything out and just enjoy the ride. What starts as two POVs and two timelines slowly ramps up so by part 2 there are more players and by part 3 even more.
You can read the synopsis elsewhere so I will just say that there is an unreliable narrator, the husband had affairs, the wife abuses prescription drugs, and there are some violent parts if any of that bothers you.
I thought The Woman Inside was fun. It was never realistic and never straightforward and that can be fun to read sometimes! One of the authors is a screenwriter and I think that you can tell. I would be surprised if HBO does not turn it into a series in the next year.

The Woman Inside is a domestic thriller that will keep you guessing on an unbelievable roller coaster where you do not know who to trust or what will come next.

There were plenty of things I truly enjoyed about this book but there were also things that lost me along the way. I think there might have been a few too many twists and turns. I enjoyed reading Rebecca's side and watching her paranoia unfold with her drug use. I felt it took a long time to get to the ending and I was rather disappointed in how it turned out. There is a whole lot of crazy in this book.

3.5 stars

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

Goodness this was a struggle to get through. I just wasn’t feeling it. It took me a long time to finish and I had to skim through a lot of it.

There was nothing that I liked about it.

Full disclosure: This is not going to be a positive review. I hate giving negative reviews because I truly have so much respect for what authors go through to get their work in the hands of readers. Plus, the writing itself was not lacking. However, the excessive lying, the significantly poor communication skills, and the insane plot twist really shut me down as a reader.

Despite my dislike of this story, I would certainly read another book by E.G. Scott. I also appreciate the originality the author was going for. This plot was so disturbingly messed up that I could see that Scott was really striving for originality, and I applaud the effort even though it was not my favorite.

Plot heavy 'thriller' that relies heavily on the 'twist' and less on the characters.

Rebecca didn't know that love was possible - until Paul. They share pain and that's what pulls them together - however - 20 years later- they are layered with secrets, affairs and addiction.

These people were just..the worst. Rebecca is terrible. The mistress was Rebecca-lite. Paul was so boring that he didn't even need to exist.l

Thrillers should be thrilling. This was a water-down Lifetime TV movie.

4.5/5

What is it about a pair of unreliable narrators that makes a book so compulsively readable for me? If it’s executed properly I absolutely cannot put a book full of unreliability down and this one was executed to perfection for me!

This is told primarily from both Rebecca and Paul’s perspectives and flips back and forth between them as well as Before, After and Now. You don’t know exactly what event happened to divide things into a before and after, but you damn sure want to find out! Rebecca has a major pill popping problem and Paul is a cheater so they’re both incredibly untrustworthy. I didn’t quite believe either of their stories but you know the truth is in there somewhere, and trying to figure that out was such fun for me.

This one had tons of marital drama, my favorite kind of entertainment and there were seriously some twisted moments in Paul and Rebecca’s marriage. There were also some killer twists that I didn’t see coming at all, this one held my attention throughout and though the ending was a bit over the top and dramatic, I loved it!

The Woman Inside in three words: Slick, Dramatic and Deceptive.

Long Islanders Rebecca and Paul have a complicated relationship plagued by extramarital affairs, substance abuse and an onslaught of other detrimental characteristics bound to doom any marriage. Add two missing women to the equation and we have ourselves a twisted psychological suspense. Multiple narrators include both Paul, Rebecca, the two detectives in search of the missing women and others, adding to the air of mystery throughout the plot.

I really enjoyed this. I loved the multiple, unreliable narrators and found the plot to be original it’s depiction of two lovers who do not know each other at all, which becomes overwhelmingly evident in the shocking conclusion. The only negative I have to say is that I found the transitions between time periods to be a bit clunky and confusing at times. However, this did not detract from the overall appeal of this outstanding thriller and I highly recommend it to fans of this genre.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Dutton, and E. G. Scott for my complimentary e-copy ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

The Woman Inside
EG Scott Penguin/Dutton Books
pub date 1/22/19
Five stars ☆☆☆☆☆
Synopsis:
Rebecca and Paul have been married nearly twenty years. She is a Big Pharma drug rep with an undeniable hardcore addiction to opiates, and she loves her husband more than anything. Paul loves making money, and as a contractor whose business fails with the real estate crash he goes through a terrible crisis of deflated sense of self. The book is written with the husband and wife taking turns narating , then as the psychological warfare between the two of them unfolds it becomes darker and darker. You will not see around the corner or behind the door before the final hammer strikes, and it all comes to a car crash of an end.

I didn't just like this book...it was the best suspense thriller I have read in decades. Gone Girl and Girl on the Train step aside this book had my complete attention till the end. We don't like the main characters, as a bystander we want them to stop long enough to just start being honest with each other. Paul never was going to stop cheating on his wife, one lie of omission stacked one on top of the other like a two hour game of Jenga. I enjoyed the atmosphere that was created in this book, the lavish lives were very much like a Real Housewives scene set with opulent homes, clothes and handbags designed to carry guns to spin class. The police detectives were borrowed from Law and Order..I could almost see Vincent D'Orfio in character questioning his witnesses and cocking his head sideways or Mandy Patankin from Criminal Minds analyizing the witnesses to stack the forensic profile who really pulled the trigger.
The book was not linear, there were more twists and turns that keep you guessing, when you think you have it all figured out the authors litterally pull that rug out from under you.
I would love to see a sequel because it really doesnt end with Paul and Rebecca. Maybe this is just a serial killer of a series starting...that would be a twist.

This was a nice paced thriller, it certainly grabbed your attention from the beginning and held on all the way to the end. The Woman Inside brought up real-life problems couples in America are facing and took them on a sinister path. While Paul is struggling to find himself again after the economy and his business have failed, his depression is alleviated by his daily walks with his big dog Duff. While walking he meets another dog owner and subsequently starts an affair. This is not his first affair, in fact he left his first wife for his last mistress who is now his second wife, Rebecca. Rebecca is a pharmaceutical rep with a fondness for drug samples of her own. When she is let go from her job for stealing from the supply closet she decides to keep her new unemployment status hidden from her husband Paul. While falling into a pit of paranoia and uncertainty from the pills she has become increasingly addicted to, she starts to worry about her life's safety, especially when two women from her husband's life go missing.

this book is about secrets and revenge - sound interesting? Rebecca and Paul's life together began as a secret affair and progressed to marriage. Their dark histories seem to make them the perfect pair, but wait history repeats as Paul begins another affair. The new mistress stalks them and enters their home when they are not at home. A body is found, but who is it? It was suppose to be the mistress but the police inform them that it was someone else. Who, why and most of all how?
This tale involves twists and turns about unfaithfulness and lies - where does it lead??