My Husband's Wife

A woman discovers her husband's dead first wife may not be dead — identity replacement and marital conspiracy echo My Husband's Wife almost beat for beat.

If the core hook of My Husband's Wife — a woman erased from her own life and replaced by an impostor — is what kept you reading, The Wife Before delivers that same vertigo from a different angle. Lola moves into a new home with her husband Roland and finds mounting evidence that his first wife, who supposedly died, may still be very much alive and watching. The novel shares My Husband's Wife's preoccupation with women whose identities are stolen, husbands who may be complicit in something unforgivable, and a domestic setting that grows steadily more sinister. For readers Googling 'books like My Husband's Wife about identity theft in a marriage', this is one of the most direct matches in the genre, with a propulsive pace and a twist-layered third act.

A husband vanishes leaving only a cryptic note; his wife unravels a corporate conspiracy that threatens her own identity. Tense, fast, and built on the same 'who can you trust?' engine.

My Husband's Wife and The Last Thing He Told Me share the same foundational dread: the person you built your life around is hiding something that puts you in danger, and the institutions meant to protect you are part of the problem. In Laura Dave's thriller, Hannah's husband Owen disappears the day his tech firm is exposed for fraud, leaving her a note that says 'protect her' — referring to his teenage daughter. Like Eden Fox navigating Thanatos and the conspiracy at Hope Falls, Hannah must decode a world that was constructed around her without her knowledge. Both books are ideal for readers who want conspiracy-driven domestic thrillers with a strong female protagonist at the centre. A great answer to 'what to read after My Husband's Wife' for anyone who loved the corporate-threat angle.

A mother's decade-long grief over a missing daughter collides with a new relationship that hides a monstrous secret — slow-burn psychological suspense with the same devastating emotional core.

Readers who connected with the identity-erasure and sustained psychological torment at the heart of My Husband's Wife will find Then She Was Gone equally harrowing in a quieter register. Laurel Mack's teenage daughter Ellie vanished ten years ago; when Laurel begins a new relationship, she meets a child who looks unnervingly like Ellie, and the truth she uncovers is darker than grief. Lisa Jewell's novel shares My Husband's Wife's interest in what happens when the people closest to us architect our reality — and its willingness to go to genuinely disturbing places. The Cornwall-adjacent English coastal atmosphere, the female protagonist piecing together a hidden past, and the slow collapse of a carefully maintained lie make this a strong pick for anyone searching 'books like My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney' with a literary thriller sensibility.

A woman returns to a supposedly haunted house to discover her father's famous memoir about it was a lie — gaslighting through false narrative, Gothic setting, identity built on deception.

If the Cornish Gothic atmosphere and the sense that an entire community has constructed a false reality around the protagonist are what hooked you in My Husband's Wife, Home Before Dark scratches the same itch with a haunted-house framing. Maggie Holt returns to Baneberry Hall — the house her father immortalised in a bestselling ghost memoir — only to find the events he described never happened as written. Like Eden Fox returning to Hope Falls, Maggie must interrogate a version of her own history that may be entirely fabricated. Both novels use setting as a psychological weapon and both ask how much of our identity survives when our foundational story is revealed to be false. A great 'what to read after My Husband's Wife' choice for readers who want their domestic gaslighting with a Gothic undertow.