The Break-In
There's nothing more dangerous than a guilty conscience
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'DELICIOUS' STYLIST
'BINGEWORTHY' NITA PROSE
'RAZOR-SHARP' ABIGAIL DEAN
There's nothing more dangerous than a guilty conscience.
Alice didn't mean to kill the intruder. She only meant to stop him hurting her daughter when he burst into her kitchen and grabbed a knife.
The police agree 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. But nothing unfolds as planned.
Alice can't bring herself to tell Linda who she really is and the more Alice learns about Ezra and why he was at her house, the more she starts to wonder whether she has the full picture about what happened that terrible day.
The new must-read thriller from the rising star of smart suspense fiction.
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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.
