Book Review: The Wedding Vow by Dandy Smith

The Wedding Vow is a twisty tale of marriage, infidelity and murder.

 

Verity and Linden have the perfect marriage with a picture-perfect home but when Linden is brutally murdered Verity's world is shattered. She is determined to find out what went wrong in her ideal life to cause her husband's murder. 

 

The Wedding Vow is narrated through alternating chapters of 'The Wife' and 'The Other Woman'. The wife is narrated by Verity, a year on from Linden's murder and the other woman is a mystery mistress of Linden's told while Linden is still alive.

As Verity digs further into Linden's life she starts to suspect everyone around her; the neighbour, the accountant, an employee, even her cousin Addison becomes a suspect of Linden's infidelity.

 

The Wedding Vow had me hooked and I couldn't put it down. Dandy Smith builds empathy for her characters as the reader gets the point of view of the wife and also the mistress.

 

Along with Verity I suspected everyone as having an affair with Linden. I kept chopping and changing my mind about who the unnamed mistress was and who the murderer was.

Dandy Smith leaves little clues, and a few red herrings, sprinkled throughout the story and many times I thought I had worked it out.

 

Short chapters with cliffhanger endings kept me eagerly turning those pages.

 

The Wedding Vow is addictive, suspenseful reading at its best. Once I'd finished my mind was reeling and I was compelled to read the whole book again. 

 

My rating 5 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

Publisher: Echo Publishing

Publication date: 4th March 2025

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Pages: 336

RRP: AU$22.99 (B format paperback)

Source: Courtesy of the publisher