The Break-In
Nothing as dangerous as a guilty conscience
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'DELICIOUS' STYLIST
'BINGEWORTHY' NITA PROSE
'RAZOR-SHARP' ABIGAIL DEAN
Alice only meant to stop the intruder.
She didn't mean to hit him so hard.
She didn't mean to kill him.
The police conclude that she acted in self-defence, but wracked with guilt, Alice sets out to apologise to Linda, the mother of the young man she killed - only to find she is unable to come clean about who she really is.
Without meaning to, Alice finds herself drawn more and more into Linda's world, struggling to balance her growing obsession with starting a prestigious new job, caring for her daughter and being there for her husband.
But as Alice learns more about Ezra - and finds herself uncomfortably enmeshed with his family - she begins to wonder whether she really has the full picture about why he came to her house that day.
This latest simmering suspense novel from the internationally bestselling Katherine Faulkner is an unputdownable must-read that will have you hooked from the first twist to the last.
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Faulkner's ho-hum latest (after The Other Mothers) focuses on the fallout after stay-at-home London mom Alice Rathbone kills a home invader. When knife-wielding teenager Ezra Jones breaks into her house while her seven-year-old daughter, Martha, is having a playdate, Alice bludgeons him over the head with a stool and kills him. At first, she assumes it was a random attack, but after talking to Ezra's mother, she suspects the teen had been stalking her family. Alice turns to her new friend Stella, an investigative journalist, for help getting to the bottom of the situation. Then Alice's husband, Jamie, disappears, reigniting dormant rumors that he'd been involved in sex scandals—and possibly even murder—as a senior executive at a charity organization. Eventually, Faulkner knits everything together with a series of surprising reveals, unveiling hidden motives and unlikely links between her characters. She gets in her own way, however, with too much plodding exposition and characterizations too thin to earn readers' investment. It's a letdown.
