My Husband’s Wife

When Eden Fox goes for a run near her newly purchased rural English home, Spyglass House, all seems well. She and her husband, Harrison, love the huge old house and are beginning to settle into life in the village. Eden even has a show of her artwork planned at a local gallery. But all happiness and plans evaporate when she returns from her run and her key won’t work. Worse, another woman opens the door and claims she lives there and is Eden Fox. Eden’s husband says the same, and the police are called. In Feeney’s Beautiful Ugly alternating chapters, this bizarre story continues as we also meet police officer Olivia Bird, or Birdy, who is soon embroiled in her own mystery: a relative she didn’t know has died and left her a considerable inheritance. As part of it, Birdy discovers communication from a tech firm that promises to tell subscribers their death date. She and a kindly small town police officer investigate Eden Fox’s case, which soon turns into a missing-person investigation, one that’s surrounded by intriguing small-town goings on and MOST unexpected twists. A must for fans of Feeney’s absorbing novels and of Tana French’s work.