Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Like My Husband's Wife, it turns a marriage into a puzzle where each chapter reshapes what you thought you knew about the spouse at its centre. The narration is sharp and the twists land hard.
12 books to read next
Books Like My Husband's Wife
If you loved My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
Readers who love My Husband's Wife usually come for the twists: a story that keeps shifting under their feet, with a seaside house, a marriage in crisis and a question of who is telling the truth. Alice Feeney's pace is quick and her chapters end on hooks, while the tone stays unsettling and mysterious rather than gory. The picks below follow those threads: sharp reveals, marriages with hidden cracks, old houses full of secrets, and characters whose identities cannot be trusted.
Same mind-bending twists
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
A psychotherapy-driven mystery with a fast pace and a late reversal that rewards close reading, much like Feeney's habit of revealing that nothing is as it seems.
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
A tense, isolated setting and a narrator whose account keeps changing, giving the same breathless unease and sense of being misled that Feeney's readers enjoy.
Marriage and domestic secrets
Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris
A domestic thriller about a husband who seems perfect and a wife who starts to see cracks. It shares the marriage-thriller unease and the sense that the home itself hides something.
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
A missing baby and a couple whose public image hides private lies. Its quick chapters and shifting loyalties will appeal to anyone drawn to the trust-no-one tension of My Husband's Wife.
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
Behind the polished surfaces of a seaside community lie marriages under strain and secrets waiting to surface. Readers who enjoyed the coastal setting and layered domestic tension will feel at home.
Gothic houses and buried secrets
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
A new wife arrives at a grand house still haunted by her predecessor. It is the classic study of a marriage shadowed by a missing woman, and the atmosphere of Spyglass owes much to this tradition.
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield
A gothic mystery built on a reclusive figure, a family estate and secrets handed down through generations. Readers drawn to the inheritance and buried history in My Husband's Wife will find it rewarding.
The Last Time I Lied
Riley Sager
A returning woman, a remote setting and a past that refuses to stay buried. Its tense, twisty structure and unreliable recollections suit readers who enjoy the layered secrets of Feeney's story.
Identity and memory games
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
A classic study of a man who slips into another identity and tests how far deception can go. Readers who enjoyed the questions of who someone really is in My Husband's Wife will find it chillingly familiar.
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson
A narrator who cannot trust her own memory and must piece together her life from a notebook. It brings the same sense of disorientation and slowly shifting truth that drives Feeney's novel.
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
A witness whose account of events may not be reliable, watching a household from the outside. Its twisting perspectives and moral unease match the obsession and deception at the heart of My Husband's Wife.
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