The Doctor (The Doctor's Wife #5) by Daniel Hurst
Genre: Psychological thriller
Read: 5th February 2026
Published: 23rd January 2026
★★★★ 4.5 stars
DESCRIPTION:
Is he the perfect man or the perfect liar?
Doctor Drew Devlin is handsome, charming and wealthy. The first time I looked into his blue eyes, I wanted him to be mine. I swore I’d do anything to become his wife.
But now I have blood on my hands.
I thought it was all going to be worth it. But as my husband’s past starts to unravel, I realise he’s not the man I thought he was. I don’t know if I can trust him.
I won’t let Doctor Drew’s mistakes destroy me. I’ve risked everything for this perfect life, so I’ll do whatever it takes to keep it.
And he has no idea what I’m capable of…
From the number one bestselling author of The Doctor’s Wife, this is a totally gripping and page-turning psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the final jaw-dropping twist. Perfect for fans of John Marrs, T.M Logan and Freida McFadden.
MY THOUGHTS:
The perfect man...or the perfect liar?
That's a bit misleading because I don't get any of that sense when reading this prequel to The Doctor's Wife series. In fact, scrap any pre-conceived notions you may have had about Doctor Drew Devlin from the first book because he is nothing at all like we were lead to believe!
In this book, Hurst takes us back to where it all began with Drew and Fern. How they met, fell in love and were married. And it ends when Drew met Alice. It's a prequel that offers the back story to a tale we were already well familiar with. But like with any Hurst thriller, there are spanners galore that are thrown in for good measure. Thus changing my first opinion of Drew that Fern painted via Hurst's pen from the first book and onwards. He was a man we loved to hate; that she was driven to commit the crime she had because of his infidelity. But the Drew Hurst introduces us too has none of that narcissistic charm we thought he had. In fact, he was kind and considerate, very likeable. He even valued faithfulness and loyalty, both in himself and others. So what drove him to have that affair with Alice?
When we meet Drew, he is engaged to Rose and working in a practice alongside Phil, a serial philanderer. But it's thanks to Phil that Fern meets Drew and the rest became history. Fern had just been dumped by her boyfriend the week of her best friend's funeral. And it is on her way to work one morning that she meets an anonymous woman who buys her a cup of coffee and gives her some advice.
"Find yourself a doctor and marry him! You won't regret it."
This front row seat look into the lives of Drew and Fern will have you wondering just what is at play here. Or who is playing who? We thought we knew Fern, but do we really? Is this really the full story? Is one the victim of the other? Or is it the other way around? I won't tell you what I think or it may spoil things. But let me say, that things are not always what they seem.
This is the best of the Doctor's Wife series yet! I thoroughly enjoyed stepping back in time with Drew and Fern...and I'm wondering if there will be a follow-up for the time between the end of this one and the beginning of The Doctor's Wife? I guess with Daniel Hurst, never say never.
I would like to thank #DanielHurst, #Netgalley and #Bookouture for an ARC of #TheDoctor in exchange for an honest review.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
He has been employed in several glamorous roles in his lifetime, including bartending, shelf stacking and procurement administration, all while based in some of the most exotic places on the planet, like Bolton, Preston and South London.
Daniel writes psychological thrillers and loves to tell tales about unusual things happening to normal people. He has written all his life, making the progression from handing scribbled stories to his parents as a boy to writing full length novels in his thirties. He lives in the North West of England and when he isn’t writing, he is usually watching a game of football in a pub where his wife can’t find him.
Since following his lifelong passion for writing in 2020, he has amassed a loyal and devoted set of readers, and regularly has several books in the top 100 of the Psychological Thriller Charts on Amazon. His title The Passenger became the #1 selling psychological thriller in the UK in October 2021. The Doctor's Wife is his first publication with Bookouture.
A prolific writer, Daniel likes to keep readers on their toes by self publishing even more books in between those released through his publisher.
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