Thank You to Bookouture, Sue Watson and Netgalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for a candid review! Ella, THE SISTER-IN-LAW is everything Clare isn’t. Glamorous. Young. Influential. But she knows a secret about Clare. Something that has the power to break the whole family apart. Clare and Ella do not get on. If you read one book on your life, make sure it is this!!!! I would love to see this turned into a movie and Ruth I really hope you are working on your next psychological thriller at this moment because this book will go far!!! A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS on what promises to be a MASSIVE success!!! I was originally drawn to this book by its eye catching cover and intriguing sounding synopsis and title. The synopsis stated that 'The Silent Wife - a gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, K.L Slater and Daniel Hurst'. I am a MASSIVE fan of all three of these amazing authors so am looking forward to seeing if it lives up to this statement. I must admit I was also biased due to the publisher being Headline Accent. I have yet to read a book published by Headline that I haven't enjoyed. Hopefully this won't be the first... Watch this space! (Written before I started reading the book. The Sister-in-Law is a gripping psychological thriller by Sue Watson. It is an entertaining read that I found hard to put down!

And there’s someone who will do whatever it takes to make sure that this deep secret never comes to the surface. Clare and Dan and family arrive in Italy for their yearly holiday with Dan’s parent’s Joy and Bob and are waiting for Jamie, Dans brother to arrive and join thenIt is one those books that hold no great mystery, and written rather lightly, simply, but they get you swept away like a big wave, and before you know you are sailing through the book. From the beginning, you want to punch Lena, hating her guts and wanting to throw the book against the wall, cursing like a sailor. But resume your reading maybe Lena is not the real bad guy of this story, because nothing as it seems and nobody is innocent in this family.

This novel is so good, twisty and fast reading to me, i can't put it down.It's well written and i enjoyed it, this is the first novel to me by Sue Waston but not will be the last. I really enjoyed the tense and suspenseful build up and as for the climatic ending, that was just wow! I did manage to predict some parts right, but this didn’t spoil anything for me, in fact, I found this quite satisfying. Despite the book being predictable in parts, this really didn’t spoil the read, I just appreciated how well plotted it was and the fantastic twists and turns. This book is fantastically written with vivid descriptions that absolutely grip the readers attention and puts them right in the middle of it all making your heart pound and you constantly second guessing. The book has an overdose of the acrimony between Clare & Ella for much of the early & middle portions. Also, since the narration is from Clare’s point of view, Ella’s character is not as well developed. However, the last few sections of the book are very well written, and the story ties up beautifully at the end. For that, it is well worth a read.

Clare and Dan plus their 3 young children are spending a summer with Dan's parents and his younger brother, Jamie. Humming with anxiety and friction, The Sisters keep readers guessing as to who is doing what to whom until the very end...[A] gripping psychological debut SHELF AWARENESS This is a story about Clare, who is married to Dan. She's an only child without living parents, so Dan's family becomes her family. There are his parents, Joy and Bob, and Dan's younger brother Jamie. Clare has become comfortable with Dan's family, fitting in as if it's her own. Then comes Ella, Jamie's new wife. She is everything Clare isn't, young, fashionable, exotic and Clare immediately feels threatened.

All of the characters mentioned in the book were just ridiculous. Kate was oblivious, and had a weak personality. There is no reason she could not or should not have looked for another job with the way her MIL was treating her; she needed to stop avoiding her husband and force him to have talk with her; and she became way too obsessed with finding her sister - and her sister’s husband. Cheating is never okay, even more when it’s done with your sibling’s partner. She was so willing to believe everything that James (who was a stranger to her up until her sister went missing) says, without question - even to the point of questioning the man she’s married to. Just really hard to like her in any capacity.In The Sister-in-Law we meet Clare who has been married to her husband Dan for quite a while with the couple having three young children. Clare had lost both of her parents early in life so when marrying Dan she loved gaining his family as her own and always looks forward to their large family vacations with his parents and brother. The story follows a holiday gone wrong set in an Italian villa. For Clare, it is the perfect opportunity to rekindle and make things right with her husband, Dan. Unfortunately, Dan is not the favorite of the Taylor family for the longest time. That privilege is reserved for Jamie, the youngest, who now comes home to this holiday with an extra baggage: a wife named, Ella. And Ella knows Clare's dark little secret.