The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas

I picked up The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas in our free village bus stop library. It’s full of rubbish most of the time, but I have read a few good books from there, including You Are Here and This Must Be the Place. I enjoyed Last Seen Alive by Claire Douglas last year, so thought this would be worth a read.

Published in 2024, The Wrong Sister is Claire Douglas’s 10th book. And it blows Last Seen Alive out of the water! It is exactly the sort of psychological thriller I love. In fact, I loved it so much that I read the whole thing (400 pages) in a day.

Alice and Tasha are sisters. They look alike and they are close, but they are very different. Alice is the brilliant one – clever, rich and with a good job. Tash always felt like the disappointment in her sister’s shadow – she didn’t go to university and got in a bit of trouble in her teens. Now she is a mum to twin toddlers and permanently exhausted.

When Alice offers to look after the twins for a week, so Tasha and her husband, Aaron, can have a holiday in her Venice holiday flat, Tasha can’t believe her luck. But as Tasha and Aaron get the spark back in Venice, tragedy happens at home. Alice and her husband Kyle are attacked in Tasha’s home. Alice ends up in intensive care and Kyle is dead.

Then the note addressed to Tasha arrives: It was supposed to be you.

The Wrong Sister will leave the reader thinking How far would you go to support your sister?

This is a real page turner with lots of strong, believable female characters and lots of twists and turns. There is also another family tragedy going on in the background, but I won’t spoil that for you! The chapters are dated and are mainly told from Tasha’s perspective, with some from their mum, Jeanette.