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

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It didn't feel as though any real surprises were uncovered; it was pretty much what anyone would have expected from the introduction provided. Jack's forte is getting the victims to trust him enough to tell him what has been going on,' Diane, who I suspect of being a little in love with Jack, explains. Jack insisted on choosing the house himself, telling me it was to be my wedding present, so I saw it for the first time when we came back from our honeymoon.

It transpires that Jack and Grace have been married just one year and that Grace gave up her job (a job she admits she loved) so that she could be home more often to support her husband. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Grace was just about to ask Millie to stop when Jack appeared out of nowhere, dancing with Millie and charming everyone watching, including Grace. A. Paris, who spent most of her adult life living in France, worked in finance as a trader before retraining as an English teacher. In the beginning he charmed her with his good looks and devotion to defending battered women, but mostly because if his devotion to her sister Millie, who has Down’s Syndrome.psychological suspense novels like Gone Girl are characterized by the destabilizing effect they have on their reader; where tension is built and maintained through misdirection and the manipulation of narrative twists, keeping the reader guessing, uncertain about what's actually going on, where the story is headed, if the narrator can be trusted. Grace schemes a way to escape Jack’s clutches and save Millie from the same fate, but the tension sags.

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is setting up an expectation that can at best end in confusion but more likely to result in resentment and murder. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. And that makes all the difference in keeping the story afloat and awaiting the next wave of attention. Adam, Diane and all other peripheral characters are similarly one-dimensional; never questioning anything and always just in awe of Jack - never wondering about him at 40 with no sign of wife, girlfriend or partner; or the absolute perfectness of his marriage to Grace; or the fact that Grace never leaves the house or Jack's side. Grace's parents want to find alternate living accommodations for Millie as they want to be free to travel.

This is like…you know when you stumble upon some awful movie on The Hallmark channel because someone—not you—left it on, and then you go to change the channel yet somehow end up watching the entire thing? She looks around the table triumphantly and when everyone avoids her eye I can't help feeling sorry for her. I have read a few books recently about marriages that are not all they same and when this theme is done well (as this book does) it's absolutely breathtaking and scary.His career as a top attorney (he has never lost a case) prosecuting men who abuse their wives also gives him the resources to provide Grace with anything she wants, even a brand new house, which she will only see after the honeymoon. In "Behind Closed Doors" -- you can see for yourself by the quote above -how furious an animal lover might be. I would have liked to know more about some aspects in these characters’ lives and also the story to be longer. Unlike other books dealing with abuse and sociopaths, 'Behind Closed Doors' did not provide a lot of graphic, gory details. His unexpected tone comes as a surprise, but Grace rationalizes his irritation, choosing to think that something has come up with his work.

Grace doesn't have any other brothers and sisters so she thought the fact that Millie will one day be her sole responsibility would discourage me,' Jack explains.I mean, there has to be some truth there given how people act when they watch the Packers play the Vikings.