Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to receive this book for an honest.

I was so excited when I received this book. I love Jaime Lynn Hendricks. She really knows how to get you hooked from the beginning. I read this while on vacation and I did not want to put it down. The only down side I found was in the beginning I was confused with the back and forth between Then and Now but once I got into it wasn't a problem.
I cannot wait for her next book. I highly recommend this book!

This one was FUN - another book I stayed up wayyy too late to finish, but was well worth it! In a rotating POV style, we explore the history of Kim and her old friend Tony; she fled from him 15 years ago and suddenly bumps into him at a country club...except now he's rich, goes by "Anthony," and has a young, influencer-looking fiancee on his arm.

Kim was such a strong woman lead - she was well developed and written, and I could feel her anxiety through the page! I also appreciated going back and forth with the POVs of different characters to get a more well-rounded idea of the backgrounds and the storyline. While I felt the ending was a little predictable, there were plenty of fun twists that threw me off at first and I enjoyed seeing how everything came together. Thanks so much for this ARC!

We all love us some @jaimelynnhendricksauthor up in the @thrillerbookloversthepulse joint! Excited to have early access to this bad boy!

In this thriller we meet Kim who is a struggling waitress. She’s down on her luck trying to make ends meet when a mysterious person asked her to drop a pill in someone’s drink while she waitresses. She really needs the money because her poor pup needs a life saving surgery and she simply will do anything to help him. The person she’s supposed to drug is a man named Anthony, her ex-boyfriend. But little does she know his own finance, PJ has plans of herself. When the night comes to an end, PJ is dead, Anthony is alive and Kim is left with even a larger mystery on her hands.

Oooh this book is a juicy wild ride! I highly recommend this for anyone that likes twisty tales and is a lover of dogs! 🐶 Jaime writes these character as relentless, snarky, sassy people and I’m here for every last moment! I love the multiple POV, the deception, betrayal and outright insanity of these characters which made this book unputdownable! Once again Jaime simply knocks it out of the park! I can’t wait to see what she writes next!

Kim is a waitress at a posh country club scrapping to get by. She is devastated that her beloved dog, Murphy needs a life saving surgery that she can't afford. She will do anything to save her dog. The Stranger contacts Kim with a way to save her dog all she has to do is put something in a members drink at work and she will get the money she needs. She says yes but when it comes down to it she can't do it because she knows the member.

The last person she expected to see was her ex-boyfriend and his fiance. This will be someone's last supper but who is behind it and why? This was a great cat/mouse as each trying to outsmart the other person but only one will achieve their goal.

This is one fast paced, twisty mystery of revenge alternating between past and present. PJ is a woman with a plan. Anthony is happy he has left his past behind and started a new life. The past has a way of catching up with you no matter how far you run. This had so many moving parts and it kept you guessing until the end.

Told from multiple points of view but some very unreliable narrators, this one is twisty and dark and will have you flipping those pages.

Honestly, the only characters I liked at all was Kim. And how can you not like a woman who is doing everything she can to raise money to save the life of the one man she can always depend on - her dog!

Her life is a mess. Her boyfriend cheated on her, so she's working at a Jersey country club waitressing part time to make extra income to survive and try to save for her dog's surgery. An envelope shows up on her doorstep with a burner phone. She gets instructions to put a substance in a new member's drink one night, and she will get paid well. She doesn't want to do it, but she needs that money.

When the time comes, she realizes the man she's supposed to slip the substance to is her high school boyfriend. He's there with his new fiancee. Kim can't go through with the plan, but things take a turn and someone winds up dead. And then the real stories start to emerge.

I love unlikeable characters and this was just a twisty, dark, satisfying read for me.

I saved this one for vacation, and damn, it was the ideal poolside read! Jaime Lynn Hendricks knows how to keep me turning pages.

📖: Kim’s dog is sick, and someone knows she’ll do anything to afford the surgery he needs. “The Stranger” wants Anthony Fuller gone and is coercing Kim into completing the task. But when the time comes, Kim realizes the target is her ex-boyfriend, and someone else at his dinner table ends up dead.

🤝: This may be a good fit if you enjoy:
- snarky characters
- con artist tropes
- rich people problems

💭: Once again, Jaime Lynn Hendricks hits the spot with her fast-paced, twisty thrillers. She’s become so reliable that I save her books for when I need a breath of fresh air.

Con artist tropes can be hit-or-miss for me, and this was a hit! I didn’t have to work too hard to keep everyone’s stories straight. And I chuckled at the blunt, sassy characters. Hendricks knows how to create delightfully nasty characters to balance the ones we’re rooting for. I can’t wait to purchase this one to add to my collection!
B
⭐️RATING⭐️: I really liked it! (4.5⭐️ rounded up)

Pub Day: May 20th, 2025

Thank you to Penzler Publishers, Scarlet, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ebook early in exchange for an honest review!

Jamie Lynn Hendricks knocks it out of the park again. Kim is down on her luck when her dog needs a serious surgery to live. Kim will do anything to save her pup, When Kim is approached with a dangerous task that will have a huge payout, she is down for it, despite the consequences that may come with this.
One fateful night, Kim is at work and sees her ex boyfriend from high-school and the tables turn,
This was told in different POV which adds to the story. I enjoyed the twists and turns that this book had. It had spice, dogs and many twists and turns that left me in shock.

Thank you to #netgalley and #thrillerbooklovers

Their Double Lives - Jaime Lynn Hendricks

JLH does it again! Their Double Lives is the definition of unputdownable—twisty, relentless, and absolutely addicting. If you love thrillers that keep you guessing until the final page, this one is a must-read.

Kim Valva is barely scraping by, stuck in a thankless job and desperate to save her dog’s life when a mysterious stranger offers her a deal: slip a pill into a drink, and all her problems disappear. As a dog lover, I can’t even blame her for considering it. But when the wrong person dies, Kim finds herself tangled in a deadly web of deception where no one—not her ex-boyfriend-turned-millionaire, not his too-young fiancée PJ, and certainly not the person pulling the strings—can be trusted. The layers of lies unravel at breakneck speed, leading to a jaw-dropping finale that proves once again why Jaime Lynn Hendricks is one of the best in the genre.

As a longtime fan, this book exceeded every expectation. A Lovely Lie was my #2 ranked book of 2024, and Finding Tessa remains one of the best thrillers of the last decade—Their Double Lives absolutely belongs in that same league. Jaime Lynn Hendricks crafts characters with razor-sharp precision, and her signature dark, twisty storytelling is in full force here.

Huge thanks to Jaime Lynn Hendricks, Penzler Publishers, and NetGalley for the ARC. If you’re looking for a thriller that will consume your entire day, Their Double Lives is it. Publication date May 20, 2025.

After reading I Didn’t Do It I quickly became a fan of Jaime. So when I found out The Pulse had access to her latest I couldn’t say yes fast enough!

Once I started, I did not want to stop reading. If it weren’t for my son and adult responsibilities I would have finished it in one sitting. Multiple POV/ dual timeline is my favorite format and it was done so well here. The pace was great and the characters left you confused on who to trust. Plus as a dog lover I greatly appreciated and understood Kim’s love for her dog.

Okay I need to just stop procrastinating and get to the rest of Jaime’s backlist asap. She’s quickly becoming a favorite, autobuy author for me!

Read if you love:
❤️ Dogs
👫 Multiple POV
🕰️ Dual timeline
🤫 Twists and secrets

The queen of twisty turns, Jaime Lynn Hendricks just knocked this one out of the dog park. This is one book that is so hard to review without giving away the excitement. In Their Double Lives, Jaime touches on the subject of how far one would go to save their beloved pet (child). We are introduced to Kim whose pup (child) Murphy requires a much needed, expensive surgery to save his life. Kim is a waitress at a country club and does not earn the money needed to save Murphy when she receives a call from "The Stranger" who offers her a large sum of money in exchange for simply adding some poison to the food of a new member at the country club. Will she do it? How much does she want to save Murphy? What are the twists that come next - I can't tell you, you will need to read this one yourself to find out. I love how Jaime writes stories in multiple character views and telling when is happening today vs what got the character to the point where they are. This is a not to miss book it's her best book yet, not sure how she will top herself in her future books.

Absolutely twisty right from the very start!!! I totally enjoyed the characters and loved how it all came together! This is a total must read!!!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced reader’s copy in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my e-ARC of Their Double Lives!

𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔
☠️ would poison someone to save your dog
🤫 ever lied about yourself
🫂 have a ride or die bestie
 give people you hate awful nicknames

• 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓

A down-on-her-luck waitress at a posh New Jersey country club, Kim Valva couldn’t be living a more different life from the carefree socialites she serves. Her live-in boyfriend recently cheated on her, her social life is in shambles, and her dog needs a life-saving surgery that she can’t afford. Then her luck seems to change when a mysterious figure identifying themself only as The Stranger contacts her with an offer she can’t refuse: Put a pill in the new member’s drink and, when he dies, she’ll have enough money to fix her dog and her life.

Her target turns out to be Tony Fiore—Kim’s bad boy ex-boyfriend from high school. Fifteen years have passed, and he now goes by Anthony Fuller. He’s cleaned up, made tens of millions, and his gorgeous fiancée, twenty-two-year-old PJ Walsh, is on his arm.

PJ had her own agenda from the second she met Anthony. Find him, trick him, marry him, kill him. It was supposed to be easy, but she finds that while living her double life, the lines blur between who she is and who she’s pretending to be.

Stunned to see Tony again, Kim can’t bring herself to go through with spiking his drink. Instead, it is PJ who dies horrifically at the table just as dinner ends. Was someone else at the club—member or worker—tasked with poisoning PJ just as she had been instructed to do to Tony? Who would want both of them dead? With no one to trust and The Stranger to answer to, Kim must peel back the layers of deceit to reveal a deeply buried truth, more shocking than she could ever imagine…

• 𝐌𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒

This was a twisty one, right from the start! I enjoyed the different POVs, as it helped me understand everyone’s roles a bit more clearly. PJ was probably my favorite character after Kim, because I liked her easy ability to be cunning and deceitful. She was a lot of fun. I loved her best friend, Matt, as well. He was a real ride or die friend who never stopped gunning for their end goal. Overall, the characters all felt relatable in their own ways. While I did guess the twists (the Stranger for example) it didn’t really take away from the book, as I enjoyed getting to know the whys of everything. The ending was a lot of fun too, and I could see this being an awesome movie!

There’s never a dull moment in this character driven thriller. Give yourself plenty of free time before starting this one, because once you start, you won’t want to put it down.

When Kim’s dog, Murphy, gets sick, she’ll go to the ends of the earth to save him. But first she needs money, so when an envelope shows up on her doorstep offering a large sum of money to kill a man, it’s not out of the question for her. All she has to do, in her capacity as a waitress in a high end country club, is put some poison on a guest’s dessert. Easy peasy. Until she comes face to face with the guest, and it’s an ex-boyfriend. She can’t do it. Or can she?

Fantastic story, great characters and superb ending. Of course, that’s no surprise with a Jaime Lynn Hendricks book. If you like thrillers, or just enjoy a great book, I promise you’ll love this one.

Thank you, NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for the opportunity to read this 5-star book.

Oh my goooddddnessss!!! This book was freaking GOOD! I absolutely devoured it and it surprised me in all the best ways! Every time I thought I had something figured out, Hendricks threw me for another loop!

Imagine being paid a hefty sum to slip something into someone's drink. You desperately need the money, there's no way it can be traced back to you, and theoretically, you have no idea who this person is. But then in walks your ex - a person from another lifetime ago - and that's your target. Could you do it? Could you have done it before? I loved pondering these questions and following Kim as she dug herself into this wild and crazy hole. I had the hardest time knowing who to trust, wondering if any narrators were reliable, and figuring out how the storylines were connected.

This book was flawlessly executed. I loved that I had all the outside edges of the puzzle but had absolutely no idea what the picture in the middle might be and Hendricks unraveled the mystery piece by piece. The various narrators all added so much to the storyline and the characters were overwhelmingly dreadful (it was utterly delicious!).

I couldn't put this book down and loved how everything came together. Hendricks has been a household name at The Pulse for some time now and she has earned her way to auto-read quite quickly for me! Don't miss Their Double Lives!! It releases 5/20/2025.

“Anything can happen on a roll of the dice”

Well that is as a very unexpected and twisty read! I devoured this book! The complexity of characters and plot was unlike anything I’ve read recently. I’m still thinking about that ending! All the sneaky and backstabbing scenes were so good! Jaime Lynn did it yet again! You do not want to miss out on this one! Hands down one of my favorites so far this year.

This was a fast paced propulsive thriller where everyone had something to hide - things that were worth killing for.

No one is who they say they are and everyone has a reason to murder

Jamie Lynn Hendrick's Their Double Lives was an absolute roller coaster. From beginning to end, through every timeline and POV, I had an absolute blast reading this one.

📚 PRE-PUBLICATION BOOK TOUR BOOK REVIEW 📚

Their Double Lives By Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Publication Date: May 20, 2025
Publisher: Penzler Publishers | Scarlet

📚MY RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Thriller Book Lovers The Pulse for inviting me to be a part of this book tour, and to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers | Scarlet for this #gifted e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!

📚MY REVIEW:

I LOVE books with twists and turns that knock me sideways and leave me scrambling to pick my jaw up off the floor. Their Double Lives, Jaime Lynn Hendricks's upcoming release, did exactly that and left me absolutely gobsmacked.

Hendricks delivers one of the twistiest domestic thrillers I've read in recent memory! Utterly unputdownable, the story is centered around a premise of morally questionable plotlines. How far might someone go to save what they love? And how far might they go to avenge someone they loved? A detailed synopsis is too much to explain here and honestly, I think it's better not to know too much before you dive in yourself.

This book has alternating chapters from multiple POVs and is told in multiple timelines of Then and Now. The main characters' storylines traverse down pathways across time until they converge in ways that blew my mind because I just didn't see them coming.

There are a plethora of unlikeable characters, willing to do despicable things for the self-determined "right" reasons...and yet somehow, I found myself feeling empathy for most of them and cheering them on -- even though I knew it would be impossible for everyone to end up with a happy ending.

Again and again, Hendricks wove a tapestry of motivations and intentions within these characters that left my head spinning at every unexpected turn. And after this brilliantly twisty ride, I thought the ending was so supremely satisfying. Bravo. If you're a fan of twisty domestic thrillers that keep you wondering who the story's real "villain" is, be sure you get your hands on this book as soon as you can!

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Thank you so much for this ARC!

WOW, this is definitely my favorite Jaime Lynn Hendricks book now. So incredibly fun. Amazing characters, all so good that I looked forward to each person's point of view. This book was tense, sexy and full of mystery. Love when you're not sure who the bad guy is - such a fun ride.

Hey, may I do some screaming now?
Ok, thanks, then hear me out, hear me screaming here YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS BOOK! YOU WANT TO READ THIS ONE, TRUST ME!

Did you know that it is possible to write a book where you (me, that is) somehow love *almost* all the characters? Even the most manipulative and evil ones? You read and you wonder and you find them relatable and you root for them all, and even though you know that there is absolutely no way on earth for this to end well for any of the involved ones, you still keep hoping that it somehow works out – or at least goes downhill in some super epic manner.
Oh, and downhill it goes. And goes bad. Good and bad at the same time, bad in a good way, good in a bad way. And yet, it all somehow happens in a very satisfying way.

And, to top off the list of the reasons why this book is an absolute must-read: its pub date is my birthday. It’s in May. I know it’s a long wait, I know. But it will be totally worth it.