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The Missing Wife: A Psychological Mystery of Secrets, Lies, and a Face Caught on Camera: Inspired by Real-World Cases
Paperback
Series: The Wife Thrillers
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 15 2026
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-two years ago, Mara Hale walked out of her home barefoot-and vanished.
No body was ever found. No one was ever charged. But in the court of public opinion, her husband, Evan Hale, was convicted long ago.
Now an anonymous envelope arrives containing a grainy surveillance photograph from a small coastal town in Greece. The woman in the image is older, worn by time... but she has Mara's unmistakable crooked ring finger.
Someone knows what happened.
As the photograph ignites a media firestorm and police reopen the cold case, Evan is forced back into the nightmare that destroyed his life. Every clue leads to another secret: hidden identities, women who disappeared without dying, confidential church records, abandoned clinics, and a network built to protect victims from a predator who erased them long before anyone reported them missing.
But the deeper Evan digs, the more impossible the truth becomes.
Because if Mara is alive...
why did she never come home?
And if the woman in the photograph isn't Mara-
who has spent twenty-two years living inside her shadow?
The Missing Wife is a gripping psychological mystery about love, survival, coercive control, and the devastating cost of the first story people choose to believe. Perfect for readers of Lisa Jewell, Charlie Donlea, and Karin Slaughter, it delivers relentless suspense with an emotionally unforgettable conclusion.
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