Earlier this year, Sandie Jones stunned readers with her brilliant, twisting debut novel, The Other Woman, which the New York Times Book Review called “Whiplash-inducing.” Now, she’s gearing up to release her next thriller, titled The First Mistake, which is due out in June 2019.
Back in September, I interviewed Jones just before the release of The Other Woman and asked her about her next book. At the time, she told me, “There’s a second novel in the making, a thriller based on the secrets and lies between a husband, wife, and her best friend.
“I wrote the first draft very quickly after The Other Woman and as every author will tell you,” she continued, “the second novel is notoriously difficult! So it was perhaps no surprise to find most of it on the cutting room floor! By the time you reach the fourth or fifth draft you hope it’s going to be knocked into some kind of shape that you’re happy with. I’m at that stage now. I’ll work on perfecting it between now and Christmas, ready for its release next Spring!”
While teaser certainly set the table, we now have the official plot details for The First Mistake, and boy, are they juicy. Check ’em out below!
From Sandie Jones, the author of The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.
THE WIFE
For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house.
HER HUSBAND
Alice knows that life could have been different if her first husband had lived, but Nathan’s arrival into her life gave her back the happiness she craved.
HER BEST FRIEND
When Alice met Beth, her best friend, it was the icing on the cake. A friend without judgment, to celebrate with, commiserate with, Beth is the most trustworthy and loyal person that Alice knows. So when Nathan starts disappearing for stretches of time, Alice turns to Beth. But soon, she begins to wonder whether her trust has been misplaced . . .
Sandie Jones has worked as a freelance journalist for over twenty years and has written for publications including the Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly and the Daily Mail. She lives in London with her husband and three children. The Other Woman is her debut novel.
Though it’s not scheduled for publication until June 11, 2019, The First Mistake is currently available for pre-order here or anywhere else books are sold.
Praised as “one of today’s finest book reviewers” by New York Times bestselling author Gayle Lynds, Ryan Steck (“The Godfather of the thriller genre” — Ben Coes) has “quickly established himself as the authority on mysteries and thrillers” (Author A.J. Tata). He currently lives in Southwest Michigan with his wife and their six children