“The Husband’s Secret” by Liane Moriarty
Published: 7/30/2013 by Berkley
Genres: Novel, Thriller, Fiction
I really enjoyed “The Husband’s Secret” by Liane Moriarty.
Cecilia Fitzpatrick’s life is going pretty well. She has a gorgeous, successful husband, three fantastic daughters, is a top seller of Tupperware, and highly involved and influential at her daughters’ school. Her life is as neat and tidy as her home until she finds a letter addressed to her in her husband’s handwriting, “My darling Cecilia, if you are reading this, then I have died…” The moment she read the letter her life changed and would never be the same.
Tess was a happily married woman running a successful business with her husband and her cousin with whom she was as close as one could be. Until one day the two most important adults in Tess’s life sat her down to tell her they had fallen in love with each other. Her husband Will and her cousin Felicity had fallen in love right under her nose! She needed to get away so she took her son and went to stay with her mother. She enrolled her son in her old elementary school where she reconnected with her ex-boyfriend, Connor and met the woman in the office, Rachel Crowley.
Rachel Crowley hated Connor. He had, “Lies in his eyes.” Connor had been the last person to have seen her daughter Janie alive. She knew that he murdered her, but the police were incompetent and couldn’t prove it. Rachel had to see Connor everyday because he was hired on as the PE teacher at her school. As if it wasn’t bad enough to have to face a murderer everyday, Rachel’s son, Rob, informed her he and his wife would be moving to New York and taking their son, Rachel’s two year old grandson, with them.
Secrets are everywhere. What if you discovered a secret that would change the trajectory of your entire life? What if that secret not only impacted you, but others as well? Could you keep that secret if it meant hurting someone else?
This is a thought provoking story. There is a romantic element to it that is mature and intriguing. The book is well written and as always Liane Moriarty does a fantastic job with character development.
This book got an Amazon rating of 4 1/2 stars and I wholeheartedly agree.
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