His & Hers was quite the dark and twisty ride! Let’s do a quick plot summary of the book and then we will move to my Spoiler Review for His & Hers by Alice Feeney, now a 2026 streaming series on Netflix. I will also discuss the book of His & Hers vs. the Netflix movie and answer your questions and mine!

Are you looking for spoilers for The Wife Who Knew Too Much? Want to discuss the ending? Or do you want a plot summary of The Wife Who Knew Too Much? You’re in the right place!

First, here’s a brief plot summary of The Wife Who Knew Too Much

This contains spoilers for The Wife Who Knew Too Much:

Nina, a rich widow, is convinced that Connor, her new young husband, is cheating on her. If she can prove that, he gets nothing under their prenup.

Connor had been unhappy in their marriage and sought out Tabitha, his childhood sweetheart. They start an affair.

As soon as Tabitha started sleeping with Connor, she felt like someone was following her, even trying to run her off the road. She’s jealous of Connor’s wife Nina and shows up in town during Nina’s annual Fourth of July party. She’s stopped on the beach in front of Nina and Connor’s house by the police and Steve, Nina’s head of security. But they let her go.

Before their marriage, Nina found something in Connor’s past that was troubling: he had a college girlfriend who went missing.

Nina ends up dead at the July 4th party. Her death is ruled an accidental drowning.

After Nina’s Death:

Connor wants to wait a year or so to marry Tabitha. But surprise: Tabitha is pregnant. They marry. Nina’s sister contests her will and Connor’s inheritance.

Soon Tabitha is suspicious of everyone: Steve, Nina’s security guy. Juliet, Nina’s former personal assistant, who offers Tabitha a necklace to wear to an event, Mrs. Danvers-style. It’s an iconic Nina piece and the press picks up the story. Connor is furious at her naïveté.

The police arrest Tabitha for Nina’s murder. She proclaims her innocence and cuts a deal with the police and DA to wear a wire and collect evidence for them.

She discovers that Juliet is actually a) the former college girlfriend of Connor’s AND b) the illegtimate daughter of Nina’s first husband and the housekeeper (he raped her).

Tabitha and Connor are kidnapped by Juliet (who killed Nina) and Steve, the security guard. Tabitha manages gets away but can’t find Connor, who was shot in the melee.

Connor is found dead. Juliet and Steve are also dead in the resulting shootout. Tabitha settles the lawsuit with Nina’s sister for $5 million and donates the rest to charity.

You can order the book or see the full synopsis here: The Wife Who Knew Too Much.

Discussion of The Wife Who Knew Too Much

First off, did The Wife Who Knew Too Much remind anyone else a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier? The former dead wife, the personal assistant who urged the naive new wife to wear something with disastrous results? Okay, moving on.

The characters: Did you sympathize with Tabitha? She knew she was cheating with Connor and didn’t care. The pregnancy was a bit of a plot device to tie the two of them together.

Making Juliet the same person as Connor’s missing college girlfriend was a twist I didn’t expect. Making her the daughter of Nina’s first husband (and presumably the heir to everything) was also a surprise.

I think I would have liked Connor as a villain better. Tabitha’s unconditional love for him when he had lied to her about Juliet was a little annoying to me.

The ending of The Wife Who Knew Too Much felt a little artificially sweet to me and it seemed that the book tried to make Tabitha seem like a victim in all this when I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Yes, it was nice that Tabitha set up a charity but I thought she should have kept some of the money for her daughter’s care and education. Connor’s family was pretty awful and I doubt they’d support her. Plus, she’d been arrested and deserved some kind of compensation.

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A story of an heiress, a con woman and her boyfriend. Were you confused? Want all the plot details? Are you dying to dying spoilers? You are in the right place – this is a Plot Summary and Spoiler Review for Pretty Things!

Here’s a quick plot summary of Pretty Things before we get to the Spoiler Discussion!

1. Nina’s mom Lily is a minor con artist. The two move to the Lake Tahoe area. There, Nina meets Benny, the son of a rich family. One day Benny’s father catches Nina and Benny having sex at the family mansion and he runs Nina and her mom out of town.
2. Years later, Lily has cancer and Nina and her current boyfriend Lachlan are running cons to pay for her expensive treatments. Most involve Nina drugging rich guys at bars, helping them get home, casing their security and valuables and returning later to burglarize the place.
3. Nina has also been keeping tabs on Benny’s family. She’s focused on Vanessa, Benny’s older sister, an Instagram influencer, and decides to make Vanessa her next mark. She and Lachlan pose as Ashley and Michael, a couple who wants to rent a cottage on Vanessa’s family estate. (Benny was diagnosed with schizophrenia in college and is living in a therapeutic setting.)
4. Nina and Lachlan befriend Vanessa and plant cameras around her mansion. They locate her safe, where Nina is shocked to find blackmail letters from her mother Lily to Benny and Vanessa’s father. She goes to confront Lily, leaving Lachlan at the cottage, and gets arrested for her prior thefts.
5. While Lily is gone, Vanessa and Lachlan elope. Benny sees a photo of “Ashley” on his sister’s Instagram and tells her that Ashley is actually his old girlfriend Nina. This makes Vanessa skeptical of Lachlan and his motives: is he part of Nina’s con or being conned by her? Either way, whoops: Vanessa isn’t rich. And now she’s pregnant.
6. Vanessa tracks down Nina in prison and bails her out. They go to Lachlan’s apartment and find stacks of cash and fake IDs.
7. Nina goes to check on her mom. Her mom’s doctor tells her that her mother has actually been in remission – no expensive treatment was needed. Lily tells Nina that Lachlan is the one who ratted Nina out to the cops.
8. Vanessa and Nina make a plan to get back at Lachlan – Vanessa tells him she has money and valuables stashed on her family’s yacht. There’s an altercation on the yacht and Vanessa kills Lachlan. She and Nina throw his body in Lake Tahoe.
9. Fifteen months later, Nina has served her prison term. Vanessa had her baby and goes back to being an influencer, this time with a mommy theme. Michael’s body has not been found.

Spoiler Discussion for Pretty Things

So: what did you think of Pretty Things? The opening, which refers to a body under the lake, was intriguing, but I felt this book was pretty slow to get going.

Once Nina and Lachlan started their con, I was more interested. I felt that the three made a nice, suspenseful triangle. I wish that aspect of the story had been more prevalent.

I think the book had too much backstory, most of it trying to justify Nina’s con artist ways. Resentment of being run out of town by Vanessa and Benny’s family! That she could have gone to a better college! She’s doing it for her mother!

Meanwhile, Lachlan is a complete blank slate. I got NO sense of him at all. Or Vanessa, really.

Did you suspect that Nina’s mother was lying about her cancer recurrence to con her daughter out of money? I actually did see that coming. I wondered if she had cancer at all. Yes, I’m that cynical. In my defense, Lily is the original con artist!

What did you think of the ending? It was a little weird for me to have this happily ever after thing with Benny and Vanessa friends with Nina.

Did you read Big Summer and think that this had some parallels? Grudge-holding, Instagram influencers, an heiress?

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