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Books like The Last Mrs. Parrish

Start with The Wife Between Us if Amber's wish to take Daphne's place held your attention. Choose The Housemaid for a newcomer who enters a wealthy home through a live-in job, or First Lie Wins for a woman placed in a man's life under an identity her employer created. Amber gets close through friendship; these picks follow a marriage, a job and an assignment.

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Amber reaches the Parrishes by befriending Daphne. Compare the route each pick takes instead: the roles inside a marriage, work in the house or a false name supplied by someone else.

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The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, paperback cover
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The Wife Between UsGreer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The marriage behind an apparent replacementA former wife, the man she married and his new partner, as they first appearWife-and-replacement roles you may need to rethink
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, paperback cover
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The HousemaidFreida McFadden
The Winchesters' wealthy home, where she lives and worksA live-in worker and Nina, whose life she imaginesAccess to a wealthy household through daily domestic work
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston, paperback cover
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First Lie WinsAshley Elston
The life of Ryan Sumner, her assigned targetA woman with an identity her employer created and the man she is sent toA false identity used for a job, not for personal ambition
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, paperback cover
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The Wife Between Us

by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Paperback edition

  • Published
  • 432 pages

Secrets at home

Why this connection?
Begin here if the marriage and the idea of one woman replacing another drew you in. The Wife Between Us opens on what looks like a former wife and the younger woman taking her place, so the roles of wife and successor are again at the center.
What is different?
Its publisher warns that your first reading of these women may be wrong. The connection is the wife-and-replacement setup, not a planned approach through friendship like Amber's.
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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, paperback cover
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The Housemaid

by Freida McFadden

Paperback edition

  • Published
  • 336 pages

Secrets at home

Why this connection?
Choose this for another outsider who gets inside a wealthy family's home and wants the life she sees there. The new live-in worker cleans, cooks and picks up the Winchesters' daughter from school, imagines Nina's life and keeps her own past hidden.
What is different?
She gets in through employment, not a friendship built on purpose. Everyday domestic work gives her access, and Nina's troubling behavior makes the household uncertain from the worker's side too.
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First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston, paperback cover
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First Lie Wins

by Ashley Elston

Paperback edition

  • Published
  • 368 pages

A puzzle to unravel

Why this connection?
Pick this for deception used deliberately to enter someone's life. Evie Porter is not who she really is: Mr. Smith, her employer, assigned her that identity, and Ryan Sumner is her target.
What is different?
This is the widest of the three. Evie works on someone else's assignment instead of pursuing status for herself, and her personal feelings for Ryan complicate the job.
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Verity by Colleen Hoover, paperback cover
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Find books like Verity for a newcomer in a secretive home, letters from a troubled marriage or a couple whose public image hides a different private life.

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Never Lie by Freida McFadden, paperback cover
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