Summer Reads, Sneaky peeks: The Adulterer's Wife by Leigh Russell
Available here Blurb When Julie finds out her husband is having an affair, she tells her two best friends. They sympathise with her situation, and take her out drinking to cheer her up. Having been married for twenty years, Julie thinks her life can’t get any worse - until she finds her husband dead in bed beside her. The police establish he was murdered. Not only that, but they are aware Julie knew about her husband’s adultery, and she becomes their main suspect. Julie sends her teenage son to his grandparents in Edinburgh while she fights to prove her innocence. With all the evidence seemingly pointing to her, she is charged with murder. The only way she can clear her name and escape conviction is by discovering the identity of her husband’s killer. Out on bail, she employs a private detective to help her. Investigating her husband’s life, she discovers more secrets her husband had been hiding from her. But the truth is never straightforward....