📖 Book Review ~ It’s Always the Husband by C L Taylor

Avon
26 March 2026

My thanks to the publisher and Laura Sherlock for my copy of this book

Welcome to Lowbridge. Where secrets hide behind every door…

When newly divorced Jude arrives in the small town of Lowbridge, she is soon drawn to widower Will, the father of her young daughter's best friend.

But Will's past is shrouded in tragedy, with questions that no one knows the answer to – and after two tragedies tore his life apart in just a few short years, gossip and rumours abound about what really happened to the women he loved.

As whispers of murder surround Will, Jude becomes determined to uncover the truth – and with her own father's tragic fate haunting her, she refuses to let another innocent man suffer.

Yet in Lowbridge the darkness runs deep, and nothing is as it seems. Can Jude protect Will from a community out for blood? Or will she become the next victim in this web of deceit?

Because whilst one dead wife is tragic, two starts to look like murder…

📖 My Review..

Jude and her young daughter Betsy have newly arrived in town but when Betsy makes friends with Millie, the other other mums at the school gate are quick to enlighten Jude about Millie’s father, Will who, as a single parent and widower, has an air of mystery about him. With rumours swirling around that Will might have been involved in the death of his first wife and the disappearance of his second partner, Jude isn’t sure where the gossip ends and the truth starts.

With so much suspense unfolding the story moves along quite briskly and it soon becomes apparent that there is a lot more to Will Ledger than at first appears. As Jude gets drawn inexorably into Will’s life, so the tension starts to mount and the gossipmongers go into overdrive.

This is another good psychological thriller/ domestic drama from an author who certainly knows how to keep the momentum of the plot ticking over, there are lots of hidden nuances which I enjoyed figuring out and some unexpected twists, especially at the end, which I didn’t see coming. Overall, this is a great page- turner of a story which kept my attention from beginning to end.

About the Author

C.L. Taylor is an award winning Sunday Times bestselling author. Her psychological thrillers have sold over two million copies in the UK alone, been translated inot over thirty languages,and optioned for , television. . Her 2023 novel, The Guilty Couple, and her 2019 novel, Sleep, were both Richard and Judy book club picks. C.L. Taylor lives in Bristol with her partner and son.

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