My Husband's Wife: A Novel

Gothic English setting, dual timelines, and a house that seems to hold dark secrets — perfect for readers drawn to Hope Falls's coastal menace.

Fans of the gothic Cornish atmosphere and dual-timeline structure of My Husband's Wife will feel right at home with The Whisper Man. Alex North's novel is set in a village in northern England where a grieving father and his young son move into a house with a deeply unsettling past, while a detective investigates a new series of disappearances that echo an old case. The sense that a place itself is complicit in something sinister — the way Spyglass feels alive and threatening in My Husband's Wife — is equally present here. North weaves between past and present with surgical precision, and the emotional stakes are high throughout. If you're looking for 'books similar to My Husband's Wife with a creepy house and dual timelines,' The Whisper Man belongs at the top of your list.

A woman returns to a house with a disturbing past and finds the building itself seems to be lying — gothic dread, identity, and secrets built into the walls.

Riley Sager's Home Before Dark is one of the closest reads to My Husband's Wife you'll find: a woman named Maggie Holt inherits Baneberry Hall, the supposedly haunted house her family fled when she was a child, and travels back to restore and sell it — only to discover that her father's bestselling account of what happened there may have been a lie. The parallel between Maggie questioning her own history and Eden Fox being told she is not who she thinks she is creates a remarkably similar reading experience. Both novels use a crumbling, isolated house as a character in its own right, and both run on the engine of 'what is real and what has been constructed?' If you're searching for 'books like My Husband's Wife set in a gothic house with a twisty mystery,' Home Before Dark is an essential pick.

A new wife discovers the woman who came before her may not be gone — shared DNA of identity theft, marital dread, and a mystery that keeps rewriting itself.

The Wife Before shares the exact nerve My Husband's Wife presses: the terror of another woman occupying the life you thought was yours. Shanora Williams follows Samira, who marries a charming widower and moves into the home he shared with his first wife — only to find that the dead wife's presence is everywhere, and the story she's been told about her predecessor doesn't hold up. The dual-woman structure, the gaslighting undercurrent, and the way the truth is rationed out chapter by chapter all map directly onto what makes My Husband's Wife so gripping. Readers looking for 'thrillers about identity and marriage like My Husband's Wife' or 'if you liked My Husband's Wife try a book about the wife before' will find this a very satisfying next read, with a twist-heavy finale that rivals Feeney's.

A missing woman, a man who is not what he seems, and a mystery that unspools across years — emotional suspense with the same dark underbelly as Feeney's work.

Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone is the book to reach for if what gripped you in My Husband's Wife was the question of what men and institutions do to women who can't trust their own reality. Laurel Mack's daughter Ellie disappeared a decade ago; now, meeting a charming new man whose daughter looks disturbingly like Ellie, Laurel begins to unpick a secret that was buried with terrible care. Like My Husband's Wife, the novel moves between timelines, withholds crucial information at exactly the right moments, and builds its horror from the domestic and the intimate rather than the spectacular. The coastal and suburban English settings share a damp, quietly sinister quality. Readers asking 'what to read after My Husband's Wife if I want emotional depth and a dark mystery' will find Then She Was Gone a deeply satisfying answer.