Thank you to Net Galley for giving me to opportunity to listen to this ARC audiobook. This is my first book by this author. I enjoyed this fast paced thriller book and was surprised by the ending. I appreciated the description of the characters and plot. I was able to envision this book as it was a movie playing in my head.

A perfect book for those who love a good mystery! The plot was perfect switching between Darcey(the wife and detective) and the mistress.
The story follows Darcey as she finds out the woman, who she knows to be her husband’s mistress, has found her own husband dead. Darcey is forced to put aside her good detective skills to secretly continue to investigate and get to the truth of the matter. Did her own husband kill the man? Or did the cheating wife?

3.5 rounded up.

Premise - a new detective turns up on the set of a gruesome murderer, only to discover that the possible black widow is none other than her wealthy husband's mistress.

Okay, so you have to suspend disbelief right from the start with this one - somehow we're meant to believe that our detective protagonist's coworkers are completely unaware of who her wealthy, high profile husband is, so much so that she's allowed to lead an investigation where he's named as a suspect in a murder... maybe in 1610?? But in this year 2025 of Al Gore's internet, there is no way a two-second search, or some super basic cross-referencing system, wouldn't have turned out that blaring conflict of interest.

That out of the way, the rest of the book gets less plot hole-y and it's well-paced. I didn't really like either of the women, neither wife nor mistress, but I hated Bradley (hubs) enough for me to root for them, if only insofar as it was rooting against him. The characterizations of the women kept me guessing most of the way through, in that fun somewhat-off-balance way we go to thrillers for.

I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Lauryn Allman and Barbara Barnes. Allman and Barnes did a great job, with a really engaging, specific read! The format was definitely part of what pushed this up to a 4 from a 3.5, rather than down to a 3, so I highly recommend enjoying this story in the audiobook format.

Thanks, NetGalley and Bookouture Audio, for the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

🎧 Audiobook Review 🎧

Thank you Bookouture Audio & NetGalley for this ARC audiobook

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The audio was great! I enjoyed the narrators they did a great job. The audio flowed and the narrators embodied the characters well.

The plot was also great. It was suspenseful and I was on edge waiting to see what was gonna happen. Detective Darcy White is investigating a murder of a man whose wife is her husband’s mistress! Yeah you brass that right! And the ending is 😮 this was my first book by this author but will not me my last! Highly recommend!

This book was a quick read with a strong start—the pacing in the first few chapters had me hooked. But as the story progressed, I found it harder to connect with the characters, which made it a bit more difficult to stay fully engaged. While the overall plot was solid, it dragged at times and hit a few moments that felt so unrealistic they pulled me out of the story. Toward the end, the shift from thriller to the energy of female empowerment made sense thematically, but the transition felt a bit jarring.

Thank you to: Bookouture Audio & NetGalley for this ARC audiobook by Willow Rose
*Publication date: March 28, 2025

4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - This book is about Detective Darcy White who is investigating the murder of a man, who's wife Charlotte, is HER husbands mistress.

When Charlotte tells Darcy that she suspects the man she is having an affair with to have murdered her husband, Darcy is determined to get to the bottom of it, without letting on that the man Charlotte is having the affair with is actually HER husband.

This is told from multiple POV'S (Darcy and Charlotte's). This book is fast paced, twisty, full of suspense and keeps you engaged up until the very end, and oh what an ending!!!

This is my first book by this author and it wont be my last. This is a must read book that I highly recommend.

Once again, thank you to: Bookouture Audio & NetGalley for this ARC audiobook.

#BookoutureAudio. #NetGalley #MyHusbandaMistress

A first read for me from Willow Rose, a quick and easy to follow mystery/detective story, we meet detective Darcy just as she embarks on her first homicide, a homicide that will completely upend her life and her family, as the victim is the husband of Darcy’s husband’s mistress.

Told from a dual pov Darcy and Charlotte, the mistress the story unfolds with shocking twists and turns. It did verge into the unbelievable from time to time, but that’s the power of fiction I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

Great narration. 3.5 🌟

Huge thanks to Bookouture audio and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this ALC 🎧