Publish Date Aug 05 2025 by Harper Perennial

You’ve known her all your life. Or have you?

Tasha and her older sister Alice may look alike, but they couldn’t be more different. Tasha’s married with two children and still lives in their hometown near Bristol. Alice is a high-flying scientist who travels the world with her equally successful husband.

Yet each sister would trust the other with her life.

When Tasha and her husband Aaron need a break and Alice offers to stay in their home with the kids, Tasha knows her family is in safe hands.

She couldn’t be more wrong.

The call from home is devastating. Alice and her husband Kyle have been attacked, leaving Alice in intensive care and Kyle dead. Rushing to the hospital, Tasha finds the police trying to piece events together. She can’t think why anyone would attack her sister.

Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha:

It was supposed to be you . . .

Every family has secrets. Some more deadly than others.

My thoughts:

The Wrong Sister is the first book I’ve read by Claire Douglas and I have to say that she writes a solid family drama with twisty tuns. Everyone has a motive and the hidden secrets are so well crafted in this story, things are not what they seem in a shocking way. This story also explores what lengths people would go to for the ones they love or in some cases, the ones they despise. Lies told with what people think are “good intentions” have consequences. Family drama indeed!

The characters are engaging and flawed with interesting reactions to escalating events, even the ones they are working hard to down play which makes some of them believable in the eyes of their family members. After-all, no one wants to think the worse of someone they love. As the events escalate and unfold, the story has you racing to the end to find out the conclusion.

When I was starting to put the pieces of the mystery together, I have to admit I was blind-sided by the ending. Especially by a character I was hoping would make the right decision regarding a family member.

I rated this book three stars.

Stephanie

I obtained an ARC from the publishers through NetGalley for an honest review.

I must caution you, there is profanity in this book. More so in the beginning and then it tapers off with just a bit randomly sprinkled in.