Behind Closed Doors: The gripping international and Sunday Times bestselling psychological crime thriller for fans of Lucy Clarke

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I begin to ask Esther all the right questions: if she has settled into the area, if she was sorry to leave Kent behind, if her two children have settled into their new school. Diane and Adam, who have already seen it, can't help going over to have another look, and Rufus joins them, while Esther sits down on one of the cream leather sofas.

However, even if the audiobook narrator did a great job, I just had troubling caring much about her or feeling like she didn't have opportunities to get out of there. The present ones are the only ones with any real tension because you don’t know what’s going to happen next, but the past ones only act as either exposition dumps or Grace failing at escaping her predicament because she’s an idiot. Yes, I was originally sold on it by the plotline description and the number of five star reviews it had received, but if I had started to read the much smaller number of really negative reviews first, I would never have picked up the novel in the first place, and that would have been a shame. it doesnt happen often that i am satisfied with a conclusion to a mystery/thriller, so i am marking this one as a win.

BUT I get the whole syndrome, the awful cycle that kicks in within a marriage of THIS kind, so she’s forgiven indeed. Some scenes were full of tension, some scenes will leave you with your mouth hanging open and some scenes will frustrate you like hell. Only Grace seems to be aware of his true nature and she is racing against the clock to stop him before he does worse than he already has. Although I'm clearly not a fan, the crocodile-skinned lady, and many on Goodreads, absolutely loved it.

A brutal depiction of insanity, love, deception and survival, Behind Closed Doors is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.She says it was because at her birthday party, Millie told everyone her favorite color was yellow, but in other conversations, Jack referred to Millie’s future room as being painted red. A dinner party showcases Grace's extraordinary culinary fete and highlights Jack's lavish attention upon his wife and their guests. in which assessment there is no pejorative value judgment implied - it is a marriage thriller, after all.

But then again, it was so clever and effective the way the author had Grace happily heading off to the airport by herself, and it kept me incredibly tense and curious about what had happened and whether she truly would be free. Neither of them were going to read the book but they ended up being quite interested in the story once I started telling them about it. I assume they are intelligent people, so I don't know why they decided to keep Grace, or why they didn't move sooner. And in the end, I really wanted to actually see Grace get her revenge: I wanted to see Jack suffer, to watch her make him suffer, to see his reaction.The book is written in first person, jumping between first-person present and first-person past in alternating chapters. We join Esther on the sofa and Diane exclaims in pleasure as Jack pours the champagne into tall glasses.