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    The Other Side of the Door: A Novel
    The Other Side of the Door: A Novel
    The Other Side of the Door: A Novel
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    The Other Side of the Door: A Novel

    Written by Nicci French

    Narrated by Imogen Church

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    From the internationally bestselling author of The Lying Room, a sexy, intricate thriller about the temptation of secrets, the weight of lies, and the price of betrayal and suspicion.

    Who is more dangerous? An enemy, a friend, or a lover?

    When Bonnie Graham arrives at her boyfriend’s apartment in London, she is horrified to discover a dead body in a pool of blood on the floor. But she doesn’t call the police. Bonnie hides the corpse and then carefully wipes away any evidence she was ever there.

    Bonnie is a music teacher who spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a friend’s wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships—some old, some new—unraveling as the days themselves unwind. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, love, and music turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous, and friendship itself becomes a crime.

    Everyone tells lies. But is anyone prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 27, 2021
    ISBN9780063010666
    Author

    Nicci French

    Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.

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    • 3/5
      The plot was implausible and the conclusion incredibly unsatisfying. It was decently well written, excellently narrated, but fell quite flat at the end.
    • 2/5
      Excellent narration with decent, though incredibly frustrating and implausible storyline. Anything that starts off with friends calling other friends to cover up a dead body… well..
      Overall the story was entertaining, though it does get a bit repetitive before finally getting to the end.
      T/w:

      One incredibly disturbing theme is the near glorification of domestic violence/ he’s hurting me bc he’s broken/‘I can save him’/he didn’t mean it/I’m afraid but I think I love him.
      The author severely misses the mark on the topic in a way that left me focused on how wrong her approach to the attacker/victim relationship was portrayed that it overshadowed every other part of the book.
    • 3/5
      The story starts with Bonnie Graham standing in the apartment of a friend. In front of her lies the corpse of her lover. Then the story skips back and forth between the events before the murder and the time immediately afterwards.
      In the chapters about the events leading to the murder Bonnie forms a band in order to play at her friends wedding. We learn a lot about the relationship between these characters. Many of them seem to have a motive for the murder or had problems with the victim. The chapters taking part after the murder deal with the same characters, trying to cover and protect each other while not knowing who really committed the crime.
      I liked the book, although I sometimes felt the urge to shout at the characters for behaving so stupid. Although I suspected the real murderer quite early in the After chapters, it was fascinating to gain small bits of information in each chapter forming the whole picture at the end. I was a bit disappointed by the motive, though.
      Overall, the book is a capturing thriller, focussing on problematic relationships between the main characters.
    • 4/5
      Think of this book as the novel version of the tv show "Friends" with a side of "Murder She Wrote". You see, a soon to be married woman asks her friend, Bonnie, to provide the musical entertainment for her wedding reception. Bonnie agrees to it but doesn't realize just how much it will change her life. The ragtag band she forms, which includes friends, old and new and unfamiliar musicians, become entangled in murder and deception. This novel's delivery has a little spin to it, in that the chapters are divided by "After" and "Before" and secondly, though much is revealed about the crime scene little is known about the murder itself and a few key points are not immediately revealed so the reader is urged on to the reader on to discover the details.A fairly good story yet the conclusion might be too tidy for some.Thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for allowing me to read the Advanced Copy of this novel for my honest review.
    • 4/5
      Nicci French always delivers a gripping read and this is no exception.
      At first I found it difficult to get into the rhythm of the book with the constant switching between Before and After, but soon found myself enthralled in the mystery. I have to admit I felt slightly sick when things spiraled out of control so quickly. How would I have coped with suddenly becoming a 'criminal'? As circumstances gathered momentum so did my desire to get to the bottom of the mystery and I found I couldn't put the book down.
      Another triumph for the husband and wife writing team.
    • 4/5
      This is only my second Nicci French book, but I’ve already noticed a pattern: girl falls unexpectedly for man who is not good for her. Bad things ensue.However, that doesn’t mean this book was the same as the first. There’s a unique structure here. The book opens with Bonnie and a dead body; after that, the chapters alternate between before the event and after. In the before, Bonnie is putting together a rag-tag band (literally, a music band) to play at a friend’s wedding. In the after, Bonnie is dealing with the aftermath of the death and what she chose to do about it.I ended up with mixed feelings about this book. I wasn’t particularly drawn to any of the characters. I was more frustrated with Bonnie than worried about her or supportive of her. But then something interesting happened. Just as I was starting to get bored with the story and thought I knew exactly where it was going, bam! Everything changed, and I got sucked back in.So if you don’t mind not loving the characters, it’s worth a read!
    • 4/5
      3.5 Stars, would have been 4 stars but just disappointed at the ending so lost half a star for this. Other than that I really enjoyed this book, and some good twists in the book. Interesting as the book alternated from before the murder and after the murder. Do like Nicci French!
    • 2/5
      READ IN DUTCH

      I believe this is the last book I got from my aunt, perhaps she didn't really like the books in the end either.



      The story starts right in the middle; the main character is in a room with a corpse. But what happened? She can't remember.



      I couldn't really get into this story. It felt repetitive to me, and perhaps that's why I didn't like this book. It switches between before and after the murder a lot, and I think there are few authors who can intertwine two different times in a nice and interesting way. Nicci French didn't succeed in doing so, in my opinion. I found this book a bit disappointing.
    • 4/5
      As always , Nicci French serves up a haunting psychological drama of murder and deceit. The novel opens with Bonnie Graham, the main character, staring down at the dead body of a man at a friend's flat. Who killed him? Was it Bonnie? The answer is a many layered puzzle and the novel tells the story moving from "before' and "after'.