Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. How far will she go to keep her unborn baby safe?

When Suzannah learns she is pregnant, she feels like safety and happiness are finally within reach. Her handsome, successful fiancé, Alec, is over the moon about the baby. He proposes and pampers her. He thinks this is Suzannah’s first marriage and first child, but she’s keeping a few secrets. Actually, a lot of secrets.

And they are dangerous…putting Suzannah in a position where she must choose who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her baby and her freedom.

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Drowning in her lies, Suzannah is desperate to bury her past, but her ex-husband, who abandoned her years ago, returns, stalking her and demanding to know what really happened to their daughter.

When the imprisoned serial killer who lured and groomed her son, threatens to sell his story to the press, Suzannah feels like the life she’d built and the precious one she’s growing, teeter on a precipice.

Now the two children she’s hidden from Alec may be the least of her worries.

My Review

It’s some time since I read The Other Boy, book one in the Peasedale Woods Killers series, so I didn’t initially associate the names Scott, Blair and Jamie with this second book. They barely feature in The Other Mother.

I’m not going to pretend I warmed to Suzannah, the main character and first person narrator. And that was before we discover everything she has done, and is lying about to fiance Alec, father of their baby-to-be. He has no idea that she has a son, Mason, in prison for helping the renowned Peasedale Woods serial killer Gunner Piper lure his victims to his shack in the forest.

Alec also has no idea that she had a daughter Lily who died aged five. Suzannah’s ex-husband Breck was Lily’s father, and he has come back on the scene, demanding to know what happened to Lily, certain that Mason killed her.

Hiding all these secrets from Alec seemed somewhat improbable, especially visiting Mason in a high security prison every week, it was bound to end in disaster. But the rest of Suzannah’s ‘crimes’ made me wonder at times if this was spiralling into dark humour, and was I supposed to take it seriously.

I couldn’t wait to find out what the outcome would be. Poor Alec. I really liked him as a character, far more than Suzannah. He’s kind, courteous, caring – everything she wants in a partner/ father, but doesn’t really deserve. Not that I am entirely blaming her for the situation she finds herself in, it’s the way she handles it and constantly lies. And the ‘it will destroy my life’, never that it will destroy Alec’s life or the baby’s.

However, in spite of my slight reservations, it was a great read and I will definitely be reading book three, The Other Killer. Just wondering who the main character will be next time.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. 

In her early forties Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. She entered the course hoping she would become a children’s fantasy writer and left with a burning desire to write contemporary mysteries and thrillers. Heidi wanted to put relatable people in extraordinary situations, challenge them, push them to their limits and watch them fight for their sanity.

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