On the Other Side of the Door

In Nicci French's The Other Side of the Door, this chilling novel of suspense will you leave you breathless in every turned page. It all started for Bonnie Graham, a high school music teacher, who discovered a dead body at the other side of her friend's flat's door. Like Rena Olsen's The Girl Before, it's platformed with scenes of what events happened before the discovery and what happened afterwards. At first, Bonnie and her friend, Sonia, were the ones that discovered the dead body of Hayden Booth, a star musician who happened to join their band for an one-time-only event for her friend Danielle's wedding. When he first appeared on the scene to rehearse with them, tensions were so high, it could be cut with a knife. While Bonnie was seeing Neal, she grew attracted to him. But when Hayden got violent with her, things had come to a head. After Bonnie and Sonia disposed of the body and the evidence with it, they did the best to cover up their tracks. But when he was reported missing to the police, it complicated things and made things ten times worse. Everyone had a reason to hate him for one reason or another as secret and lies unraveled like a ball of yarn. And while the police questioned her, it made her nervous as she suspected one person or another who had killed him with a cold-blooded killer. Later on, she figured it out and came head to head to someone she was close to in an ear-splitting explosive climax at how things ended and how things started when she opened the door.

This was a phenomenal and bone-chilling suspenseful novel that would keep you at the edge of your seat. I did care for Bonnie and how she had gotten entangled into a deadly mess of secrets and lies and a lot of backstabbing. I did think she was a better match for Neal than for Amos, though Hayden was rough around the edges and a bit troublesome with a violent and shady past. I was suspicious of Sonia in more ways than one, which left me undecided about her true nature throughout the novel. I did love the glorious and vast locations throughout London and the other towns nearby that painted a vivid scene for this gripping novel. This would reel you in and have you hooked on the first page that make you want you to read more with non-stop action, intense drama, explosive suspense, and a lot of suspicious mysteries from start to finish.

Will you find out what happened at the Other Side of the Door today?