The Breakdown
A Novel
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3.8 • 114 Ratings
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
Finalist for the 2018 International Thriller Writers Best Hardcover Thriller Award!
Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!
THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods. It was on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, and a woman was sitting inside—the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm, and she probably would have been hurt herself if she’d stopped. Not only that, her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home.
But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing. Where she left the car; if she took her pills; even the alarm code.
The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.
And the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Hot on the heels of her 2016 bestseller Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris returns with another chilling and urgent domestic thriller that’s similarly spectacular. The Breakdown charts the course of a single summer in the lives of a seemingly perfect couple, whose bliss may mask something more sinister. To call Paris' latest novel a pageturner might be the understatement of the year.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Paris follows her bestselling debut, 2016's Behind Closed Doors, with another first-rate psychological thriller. When school teacher Cass Anderson, who lives in the English hamlet of Nook's Corner, leaves a party during a heavy rain, she decides, against her husband's advice, to take a shortcut home on a dangerous lane through dark woods. She's almost through when she sees a car stopped on the road with a woman behind the wheel. She stops, but when the woman doesn't get out, Cass drives away. Later, she learns the woman has been murdered and that she was Jane Walters, a young mother whom Cass recently befriended. Wracked with guilt that she didn't do more, Cass also worries about her sanity. Her mother has early-onset dementia and lately has been forgetting major things, like signing a contract and inviting guests for a barbecue, and Cass worries the same thing could be happening to her. Tension quickly builds to a crescendo as Cass's fears about her mental state and those mysterious phone calls that may be from the killer become palpable. 300,000-copy announced first printing.
Customer Reviews
Middle was dragging
Still kept me interested but at times to felt like a drag to read through.
really good
read it, it’s good!
The Breakdown
Excellent story I could not stop reading. Kept me guessing until the end. Love love love