Tasha and her sister Alice have very different lives. Tasha is married to her childhood sweetheart Aaron and live with their twin daughters in a small terraced house. Alice is married to Kyle. They’re highflying, successful and rich with a holiday home in Venice. Alice convinces Tasha and Aaron to spend a week in Venice celebrating their anniversary whilst she looks after her nieces. Although reluctant to leave her daughters, Tasha finally relents. But after a few days Tasha receives a call to say Alice has been attacked and Kyle is dead. They think it’s a burglary gone wrong, but then a but arrives saying ‘it was supposed to be you’.

This is the first Claire Douglas book that I have read, but I doubt it will be the last. It is a thoroughly good read.

Tasha and Alice are sisters who have taken completely different paths in life, though they are both happily married. Tasha was not academically gifted and is still living in the town where she grew up. Now married to Aaron, her childhood sweetheart, she has two twin daughters and a job as a dental receptionist. Alice by contrast is a successful biochemist and married to Kyle who is a rich tech entrepreneur.
Alice suggests a short life swap to give Tasha a break from the twins and so leaving the twins in the capable hands of Alice, Tasha and Aaron set out for a weeks break in Alice’s apartment in Venice. It sounds ideal but things soon start to go wrong in a big way and Kyle ends up dead!

Lots of twists kept me enthralled until the last page. A cracking good read.

I love reading this author’s books and this was no exception. Full of twists and turns to the very end. Highly recommended

I’d like to thank Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Wrong Sister’ written by Claire Douglas in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Tasha and her husband Aaron are staying in Venice for a week while their twin daughters are being cared for by her sister Alice and her husband Kyle at their home in Chew Norton. Just two days into their holiday, Tasha gets a phone call saying that someone has broken into their home leaving Alice injured and Kyle dead. After their return a letter is put through Tasha’s letter-box saying ‘It was supposed to be you’ and Tasha needs to work out who wrote the letter and whether her own life is at risk.

‘The Wrong Sister’ is a well-written intricately woven story of secrets and the lengths a family will go to hide them. I was drawn into the plot from the start and the further I read the more intriguing it became with its believable characters, tension, drama and suspenseful twists and turns. This has been an enjoyable thriller that I’ve found easy to read and impossible to put down. I recommend it to anyone who wants to lose themselves in a story of family secrets and unexpected circumstances, with a conclusion that was surprising and not what I’d been expecting.

I love author Claire Douglas so when The Wrong Sister came up to review I was super keen to get an ARC copy.

We meet married couple Harry and Tasha, since having twin girls their romance has dwindled a bit so they are off to basically house swap with Tasha's sister and new husband Kyle. They are off to Venice and Alice and Kyle are staying in Harry and Tasha's house to watch the kids.

After a strange encounter on an evening out, Tasha is woken to learn about her sister and Kyle have been attacked in their home. Alice is in hospital and Kyle has been killed.

Rushing back Harry and Tasha seemingly have to uncover why this happened in their home. Tasha receives a note stating that the accident which occurred involved the wrong sister and Tasha sets out to discover what really happened. Told through the perspectives of a few different characters, this is a fast paced read.

I did find it quite repetitive in places and slightly confusing at times but still this made for a good read.

Thanks to Netgalley, the author and publishers for allowing me an arc in exchange for my review.

Tasha and Alice are sisters but are as different as chalk and cheese.
Tasha and her husband Aaran go away to Venice, staying in Alice and her husband Kyle's flat wile they look after Tash'a twins.
Then they receive a message to say Kyle is dead and Alice is in hospital.
Who would do this and why is the DNA of their sister who was abducted in their sitting room?

Spine chilling gripping and brilliantly written!! Fantastic thriller, I loved this book from first page to the last!!
Tasha and her husband Aaron are off on holiday for the first time since having their twins 3 years ago, and with Tasha’s mum now living in France, her sisters offer of her beautiful flat in Venice whilst coming to stay with her beloved twin nieces is a dream. As Alice arrives with husband Kyle, Tasha starts to get cold feet about leaving.
The writing is intelligent, the characters brilliant, the twists and turns are amazing, wow! This book has you guessing and refreshingly not predictable.
Really enjoyed this and with so many unexpected elements it was really gripping and fresh.
Highly recommended, loved this book and looking forward to Claire Douglas’s next one!
Thank you NetGalley and Penguin Books for the early read! Just brilliant!!

A book full of secrets, with mad twists and turns. Bit of a wild ride really!
2 sisters, 2 very different couples decide to swap lives for the craic, I mean what could possible go wrong….
A big mix up of mysterious strangers, home invasions and murder set you up for a pacy story.
I liked the characters and found the book a good read.

Thank you so much for the early access! I’ve read 5 novels so far by Claire Douglas so I was so ecstatic to see I’d been approved for this !! Was not disappointed in the slightest, as usual, hooked within the first few pages and only put this book down to re-hydrate & sleep 😂

Well this was all a bit on the bonkers, wild ride side, and there were a few ends not quite tidied up to my satisfaction, but boy was it a wild ride...!
So... Two sisters. Tasha and Alice. Alice has a high-flying career and is married to Kyle, a wealthy entrepreneur, and they have a jet set lavish lifestyle - with no children. Tasha on the other hand married her childhood sweetheart, Harry, and lives, hand to mouth, in a modest house with their four year old twins. Chalk and Cheese but also very close.
Alice can see her sister struggling so she offers to help out by her and Kyle moving into her house and looking after the kids whilst Tasha and Harry jet off to stay in luxury in Alice and Kyle's apartment in Venice. I so need a sister like that, although not what happens next...
Tasha and Harry are having a pretty special time in Venice for the first few days, apart from that strange man who Tasha keeps seeing. Until that is, she receives a phone call to say that Alice is in hospital and Kyle is dead. Killed by an intruder during a home invasion. Their home.
There but for the grace of God etc etc...
And those words do come back to bite Tasha when she receives a note saying that it WAS supposed to be her...
And so begins a flurry of secrets, lies and dysfunctional behaviour that had me on my toes throughout. Occasionally a bit ott and far fetched, but I just rolled my eyes and carried on cos, on the whole, it was entertaining enough to keep me in the story. Yes I was a bit frustrated that there were a few red herrings that I thought were important enough to have been explained away but they were left hanging. Which did irk a tad. But the ending more than made up for it all...!
Characters were well drawn and all played their parts very well indeed. Pacing was good and matched the narrative all the way through, ramping up towards the end as you would expect from a book of this genre.
All in all, another winner from another of my go-to authors. Roll on next time. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I really enjoyed this book. Lots of red herrings kept me guessing. The characters are believable and the plot flows well. I liked the writing style. It’s written in the third person and focuses on three of the characters. Definitely recommend this one. Thank you #netgalley

When Tasha and husband Aaron visit her sister's Venice apartment, it's a chance to reconnect as their twin toddlers are looked after by sister Alice and her husband. But the romantic break is fractured by a threat from a knife-baring local and a phone call from home shatters their happiness. Returning to their daughters, Tasha finds herself in a nightmare of fear, secrets and mistaken identities.

This was a reslly interesting and intriguing book. I loved the character of Tasha, along with her husband as they felt so believable and I really connected both their emotions. The book cleverly alludes to past events including the loss of Tasha and Alice's younger sister many years before, add further intrigue to the plot.

Thanks to Claire Douglas, Netgalley and Penguin for the opportunity to read this as an ARC.

I've read a few Claire Douglas books and enjoyed them and The Wrong Sister was no different.
All of the characters feel honest, well formed and believable for the most part, with unexpected depth to character progression.

It's a clever opening set up, with subtle clues directing you one way when the story actually unfolds in a completely different direction. There's a lot of multi-threaded twists that are well executed, but perhaps one too many 'gotcha' twists for my liking.
Really enjoyed the building and unravelling mysteries throughout, but somehow felt a bit deflated by the end.

An exciting thriller read with twists that keep you guessing till the end! Thank you NetGalley and Bookouture for this ARC!

Started off really good and quite menacing and was looking forward to reading all about Tasha & her husband getting followed in Venice by a knife wielding thug while her rich sister Alice & handsome hubby baby sit for Alice & Arrons twin daughters.
It’s an interesting story with also an interlinked tale of their sister Holly who waa kidnapped when she was a baby after their mother left her in her pram to pop into the shop.
It did keep my attention but I guessed everything that was happening and I also had to keep thinking about who’s who as there are a lot of characters swirling about. It’s a nice cosy well thought out mystery yarn rather than a scared to turn off the light thriller.
3.5 stars from me but definitely think a lot of my readers will rate this a 4 star.
Thank you Net Galley & C Douglas for an advanced copy of this book.

My thanks to NetGalley and M ichael Joseph Penguin Random House for a copy of “ The Wrong Sister” for an honest review.

A word of warning before you read this ,don’t plan on doing anything else because you won’t want to put the book down !
Claire Douglas is one of my favourite authors, and this has to be one of her best so far.
The book grabbed me from the start , and every time I thought I’d figured out what was going on ,there was another twist to the tale.
A highly recommended read

Tasha and Alice have always lived under a cloud, having had their younger sister, Holly, abducted as a baby, when they were only young. Now adults, Tasha and her husband Aaron find they are not spending enough quality time together, with young twins, so Alice and successful husband Kyle suggest they use their holiday home in Venice for a break. But when Tasha and Aaron are threatened in Venice, and Alice suspects someone is watching her, things start going wrong.
Packed with twists and turns, this book kept me engrossed until the final sentences. With lots of characters keeping lots of secrets, there is intrigue until the very end.
An excellent book - highly recommended.

Fabulous read - Two sisters and their partners swap houses and tragedy strikes. I really enjoyed the twists and turns that the mystery took... and what a twist at the end!

What is meant to be a romantic holiday in her rich sister Alice‘s posh apartment in Venice soon turns into a nightmare for Tasha and husband Aaron. To make matters worse, their house at home is burgled and Alice‘s husband killed, triggering theories about mistaken identities… The clever plot is extremely twisty and there are almost too many red herrings, but all in all this is a thrilling unputdownable read.

This is an excellent psychological thriller from the consistent Claire Douglas. Two sisters whose lifestyles are rather different swap homes for a short period and this change of circumstances leads to confusion, danger and fear. The plot is fascinating, the revelations keep coming and the pace is fast throughout. A very enjoyable read.