The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michele Campbell - “Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and handsome. She was a pool girl at his country club. Their affair should have been a summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha. Years later, Connor comes back into Tabitha's life—older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy, neurotic, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha. When Connor’s wife Nina takes her own life, he’s free. He can finally be with Tabitha. Nina’s home, Windswept, can be theirs. It seems to be a perfect ending to a fairy tale romance that began so many years ago. But then, Tabitha finds a diary. "I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death," it begins. “If I die unexpectedly, it was foul play, and Connor was behind it. Connor—and her.”
This was a good book but you had to stay focused on the characters as there were so many wives, ex-wives, girlfriends, etc. There were good characters, well-planned out. A lot of activity and a lot of deceit. You had to wait to the end to unravel it all. Thank you to Net Galley for an advanced reader’s copy.

The Wife Who Knew Too Much started out with a bang and I breezed through the first half totally hooked. I was excited going in as the premise had all the right ingredients for my kind of thriller but sadly half way through it fell flat for me and went in a different direction that was all over the place.

The characters I found to be insufferable especially Tabitha who frankly was dumb and too love struck to spot the glaring dangers around her. Connor was conceited and dull, I enjoyed Nina’s POV as I found her the most interesting. Whilst this is a entertaining read and is a good quick summer thriller book I think the last half let it down particularly the ending and final reveal which was confusing and seemed rushed.

Thank you to St Martins Press and Netgalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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HOLY CRAP! This book is CRAZY! I say that about every one of her books! Why would this be an exception? For those people who just moved in together right before this pandemic, I feel bad for them. I cannot imagine not being able to move out and being stuck in an apartment 24/7 with someone I suddenly disliked! How do you know anyone, ever???? What sucks about reading this book is that I am going to be thinking about how awesome this book was and the next book probably will not compare-GEE THANKS!! HEHEHE.
This book begins ominously with Nina’s diary on July 4th. I feel like the last book that I read from this author gives it all away in the beginning, but you have to pay attention. It isn’t ALL, but it is buckle up because the roller coaster is starting, and you may not be ready! Nina writes that her husband is planning to kill her because he is in love with someone else and he wants her money. When she married into money, she was twenty-three, her husband was fifty. After he died, she was fifty and her new husband was thirty. This book toggles through point of views. Chapter 2 is the basic obituary about how Nina was killed and she was quite the socialite and then Chapter 3 brings us back to Memorial Day Weekend and to a woman named Tabitha. I do not want to talk too much about the details, because then why would you want to read it? This book is so tightly twisted and simply just WHAT?? I read this cover to cover and as the end neared, I was yelling at the book and was like ---WHAT??!!! I loved this book so much and I hope that when her next book comes out, that I am chosen to do a review for that one too! The author keeps you on your feet. I did not see any of that coming and it came apart quickly and I was OMging for hours!

Suspense novels are my jam during the pandemic and when they manage to surprise me? Better yet.

Tabitha and Connor had a summer fling when she was just a teenager. More than a decade later, she’s waiting tables in New Hampshire when he shows up, driving a Lamborghini and married to an immensely wealthy woman two decades his senior. They rekindle their relationship, but Connor wants to find a way to be with Tabitha without violating terms of his prenup, which would keep him from any of Nina’s money.

When Nina is found dead in the pool of her Long Island estate, her death is ruled a suicide, leaving Connor free to marry Tabitha. But thrust into a world where she doesn’t belong, Tabitha doesn’t know who she can trust or whether she can even trust Connor.

When the police investigate Nina’s death, Tabitha is terrified of what they might discover.

Twisty-turny suspense that keeps the reader guessing until the very last page, with bonus yachts, jewels, and oceanfront estates thrown in for more entertainment. #TheWifeWhoKnewTooMuch #NetGalley

Excellent, highly entertaining.

This book grabbed me from the beginning. The book follows Connor, Tabitha and Nina. Connor and Nina are married, Connor and Tabitha had a worldwind summer romance and connect 13 years later while Connor is still married to Nina. Shortly after Tabitha and Connor reconnect, Nina dies under suspicious circumstances.

The book alternates between time periods and perspectives of Tabitha and Nina. I always enjoy when books cover different perspectives. Different timelines? Even better.

So many secrets and lies with an action packed ending.

Thank you St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. It was truly my pleasure.

In Michele Campbell's The Wife Who Knew Too Much, this shocking new thriller is so dark and twisted, it would leave your head spinning by the ending. When Tabitha Girard met Connor Ford years ago, it was love at first sight. But when other people, like her grandmother, warned her about him, she was already head over heels in love with him. And they broke up and went their separate ways. Years later, she met Connor at the restaurant she worked at as a waitress. They reconnected and restarted their love affair, though he was married to an older rich woman he didn't love. They had to keep their reunion under wraps since he planned to leave his wife for her. But then things had hit a snag. Tabitha discovered about her pregnancy ,and planned to tell him on Nina's 4th of July party--the same night when her ex stalked her, someone tried to run her off the road, and then Nina drowned in her pool. Shortly after her death, she married Connor and lived the glamorous life to travel to UAE for work. But when she arrived in Windswept, she learned how she was the outsider and how Nina's staff had appeared unwelcoming to her. Caught in a media blitz with the press, people pointed her out as the killer, putting additional pressure when the police came swarming in interview and later arrest her. To prove her innocence and Connor's, she would have to find out who had it in them and why... in a life-and death battle in the end.

One thing you are guaranteed when you pick up a MC book, is a good storyline, characters that evoke strong feelings and a twist at the end. Ms. Campbell is one of my go-to authors when I’m in the need of a good thriller, and I have a block of time to read it! This book is no different. Like/hate the characters, a murder on page one, great details when setting up a scene (scenery and situation), and a little twist I didn’t see coming at the very end. I enjoy how she ends a book after the what you think is the final scene.

Tabitha falls in love with Connor in high school. She’s from the ‘wrong’ side of the tracks, he’s from an affluent family. Not much of a surprise on what happens here. Fast forward to their meeting a few years down the road. Chemistry still there, but he’s married...to a very wealthy woman who holds a firm hand on him. Then comes a murder and so much more.

I recommend this book if you are going on a long flight, heading to the beach or mountains or just in need of a good story. Bottom line, I just recommend this book.

Thanks to Ms. Campbell, St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone.

Michele Campbell has done it yet again! She has quickly and most certainly becoming a must-read or me. This book will captivate you literally from page one. Nina, Connor her way of developing characters you find yourself connecting to in one fashion or another is impeccable. Another fast-paced can't put it down until you know what happens next filled with twist, turns, and all the good stuff in between. This is a MUST read! A huge thank you to NetGalley for providingng me an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. 5-stars! Must-read. Reserve your copy today!!

The Wife Who Knew Too Much was my first Michele Campbell book. I wish I had read her work earlier! I devoured this novel in two sittings.

This starts off with a bang.

"I’m writing this to raise an alarm in the event of my untimely death," it begins. “If I die unexpectedly, it was foul play, and Connor was behind it. Connor—and her.”

What follows is a deliciously dark, intricate plot that kept me on the edge of my seat. Campbell knows how to play both sides. I felt myself hoping Connor would leave his wife for Tabitha. After all they seemed destined to be together.

But all of that changed in reading Nina’s chapters. You find out more of her character, her heartache. She doesn't seem to be the woman Connor painted her to be. While I wanted Tabitha and Conner to end up together, I also felt myself empathizing with Nina. It was hard to discern who was involved in what, and who to trust.

I did figure out part of the twist early on, but it was fun seeing how exactly it would unfold. There were a lot of breadcrumbs left throughout the story which Campbell took to weave together a sinister ending.

Outside of the juicy plot twists, my favorite part was the characters. Too often in domestic thrillers, the women are painted as weak, woefully incapable, and in need of a man.

That was not the case here. Tabitha was strong, resilient, and could see through bullshit a mile away. Her being blinded by her love for Conner was done in a way that made sense but even that had its limits. She wasn’t a damsel in distress.

Neither was Nina. She too had been blinded by love twice in her life, ending up burned. Yet again, she could fend for herself and had a backbone.

Michele Campbell is definitely a new auto-buy author for me. I can’t wait to dive into her back catalog of books after this.

Connor Ford is the one itch that Tabitha Girard has never been able to resist scratching. It begins during their teenage years when Connor and Tabitha have a summer romance while she works as his grandmother's country club. Connor's grandmother doesn't approve of the pairing and soon finds a way to break the two up.

Years later, Connor wanders into the restaurant/bar where Tabitha is waitressing, and the two attempt to pick up where they left off. The only things standing in their way are Tabitha's recently released from jail ex-husband and Connor's wealthy wife, who are suspects that Connor is stepping out on her. Thanks to an iron-clad prenup, if Connor leaves his wife, he loses everything.

So, when Connor's wife turns up drowned in her swimming pool after a summer party and Tabitha reveals she's expecting Connor's child, suspicions begin to mount. After quickly and quietly marrying Connor, Tabitha begins to suspect that her new husband may be keeping secrets from her -- deadly secrets.

Michele Campbell's The Wife Who Knew Too Much starts off with a solid hook and an intriguing premise. Sections of the novel are told from the third-person perspective of Connor's wife and the first-person perspective of Tabitha. Each allows us to see different sides of Connor and begin to slowly make assumptions about him and what his possible motives are for each of the women in his life. The tension slowly builds as Tabitha discovers her pregnancy and keeps making decisions that could paint her in a negative light if viewed by outsiders.

And then, the wife drowns and things slowly begin to spiral out of control. Tabitha's impulsive decisions in the first half of the book continue to haunt her. These are compounded by even more reckless and impulsive decisions, all of which Tabitha justifies to herself and the readers. However, there are moments in the second half of the story that Tabitha is portrayed as far too blinded by love for Connor or naive to not notice that maybe Connor doesn't have her best interests at heart. The sheer number of times she writes off his moodiness as relating to various business deals starts to become wearisome.

It all leads to a series of twists and turns in the novel's final quarter that aren't earned. Part of this is that beyond Tabitha, everyone (including Connor) is a one-dimensional character, there to simply fulfill whatever the plot requires of him or her at that moment in the story. And once we get to the revelations of who killed who and why the story had completely unraveled and I found myself reading less out of any burning desire to find out why did it and why so much as to see how much more ludicrous the story could get (SPOILER alert -- it gets ludicrous by the time we get to the final page).

Part of this is that Campbell has Connor waiver back and forth between manipulative jerk, caring husband/lover, and dark, potential killer. We never quite get a consistent characterization for him, which detracts from the central mystery and the novel as a whole.

Maybe I'm overthinking it a lot here. Perhaps this is a beach-side or pool-side read that works better if you engage the grey cells less and are simply content to turn pages .

One of the more disappointing novels I've read this year.

I received a digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately I believe Michelle Campbell may not be the author for me. I believe this one is the third book by her and I think the one big thing I struggle with is connecting with the characters. This story had a great premise and sounded like a great summer read. But this one just fell a little flat and wasn't anything special for me. This is a solid 3 star read for me.

This book was very twisty and grabbed me from the beginning, but I had some trouble with the characters and the dialogue in the story. Overall it just wasn’t a favorite, though I’ll continue to read Michelle Campbells next books as I’ve been a big fan of her earlier novels.

Wow! What a great summer thriller! Waitress Tabitha is working a shift at a restaurant when her former summer love, Connor walks in. Although she has not seen him for years and he is currently married to an older wealthy society icon, they embark on an affair. When Connor's wife is mysteriously found dead, Connor stands to inherit incredible wealth and marries Tabitha. Tabitha quickly realizes that despite the riches, luxury and glamour something much more sinister awaits her in her new lifestyle. This book is full of so many twists and turns and will keep you guessing until the end. You will not be able to put this book down!

I started reading this book and didn't stop until I had finished it! On the surface, this book is about a love triangle between a very rich woman, Nina, her self-serving husband, Connor, and his long-lost teenage love Tabitha. After reconnecting some 20 years later, Connor and Tabitha resume their relationship as the relationship between Nina and Connor comes to an end. There is so much more the this story, though! It is fast-paced and well written. I especially loved Tabitha's character. I would've preferred a different ending, but it was still a really good book.

Wow! Really good book. This is the first book I have read by this author and I really enjoyed it. Totally did not expect for this book to end the way it did. Just goes to show that you never know what is going on in other people’s lives and exactly who they are.

A fast paced thriller. Good in places but predictable and not quite believable in others.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Two women connected through the man they each love -Nina the wife and Tabitha the old rekindled flame. Connor stands between them insistent he plans on leaving Nina but needs to do it delicately due to Nina’s fortune and the prenup. Nina dies after learning Connor has had an affair and enacting plans to divorce him. Tabitha finds herself thrust into a world she never imagined but not all that glitters is gold and there are dangers at every turn.

This was an intriguing story of the fine line between love and betrayal. Told through alternating perspectives of the past and present I was glued to the pages one I got going. There were a few points where the writing or character choices felt a little forced or over the stop but overall I really enjoyed the twisty ride of this thriller.

This book opens with a diary entry written by Nina who has begun to fear for her life. She tells us that her husband has been cheating and she plans to end the marriage that very night after her annual 4th of July party. But she’s concerned that it won’t go well. If something happens to her, Connor is responsible and she wants to make sure she makes her suspicions known. Next comes a news article telling of her death.

The story of what led up to her death is told through alternating perspectives between Nina and Tabitha, who is the woman Connor has recently rekindled a relationship with. This mystery is filled with greed, lust, betrayal, obsession and murder. Who do you trust when everyone lies and has something to hide? Most of the characters are not all that likable and do things that are stupid and defy logic, which makes finding someone to root for difficult, but I didn’t think this detracted from the story at all. I still kept flipping those pages so I could find out how it all ended! Very well written page turner!

One of my favorite authors has a new book coming!! Michelle Campbell’s “The Wife Who Knew Too Much” is another twisty, fun, whodunnit that is a perfect beach read this summer. First chapter I knew it was going to be a good one. I was sure who to trust or even who to like for fear they were too involved. Nina is dead and very wealthy who will benefit most from her demise? Check it out and try to figure it out! On sale 7/28 and if you haven’t read any of Michelle Campbell’s books, start!

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This was a wild ride and Michele did not disappoint. This book has everything that I look for in a solid read. Being suspensful and twisty made this a good summer book. I can't wait to see what Michele comes out with next. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy of this.