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Also by Adele Parks:

Young Wives' Tales, February 2026
e-Book
Playing Away, February 2026
e-Book (reprint)
Our Beautiful Mess, February 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
First Wife's Shadow, March 2025
Paperback / e-Book
First Wife's Shadow, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Lies, Lies, Lies, April 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Two Dead Wives, January 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
One Last Secret, January 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Woman Last Seen, February 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Just My Luck, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Lies, Lies, Lies, August 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
I Invited Her In, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Still Thinking of You, December 2006
Trade Size
Lust for Life, November 2005
Trade Size

FIRST WIFE'S SHADOW
By: Adele Parks

A must-read gripping domestic psychological suspense crime thriller from the bestselling author of I INVITED HER IN

MIRA
March 2025
On Sale: March 18, 2025
Featuring: Emma; Matthew
368 pages
ISBN: 0778360180
EAN: 9780778360186
Kindle: B0CQPCC6M3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Other Editions
Paperback (March 2025)

Thriller Domestic | Women's Fiction Psychological

An exhilarating psychological crime thriller that will have you racing to the finish!

HIS FIRST WIFE DIED. NOW THERE'S A VACANCY…

When Emma meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems to be just what she needs.

Yet as their relationship moves fast, Emma’s friends worry she might be exploited. She’s a rich woman after all.

Emma doesn’t care Matthew has no money. But as the memory of his perfect first wife hangs over them, Emma does have one tiny doubt.

If Matthew’s wife hadn’t died, he wouldn’t be with her. And Emma wonders if she’s second best. Can she ever fill the dead woman’s shoes?

As jealousy and suspicion blossom between Emma and Matthew, events take a darker, dangerous turn.

Suddenly Emma doesn’t know who she can trust. Her friends? Her husband? Or even herself…?