The Therapist by B.A. Paris
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I’ve long been a fan or B.A. Paris but this wasn’t her best.
The premise: Alice leaves her country cottage to move in with Leo into a beautiful home in The Circle, an exclusive neighborhood in London. They wouldn’t be able to afford it but it’s priced well belong market. Alice soon finds out why it was such a steal: a murder/suicide occurred there, a fact Leo kept from her. Alice finds out the woman (a therapist) was murdered by her husband, and that she was named Nina, the same name as her dead sister. She becomes obsessed with the murder.
The more she learns, the more convinced she is that Nina’s husband did not kill her. Strange things begin happening in her home and she becomes increasingly suspicious of her neighbors, especially when a private detective comes to her home with claims that the husband (who had since committed suicide) was innocent.
The Therapist starts off strong and the storyline is interesting enough but there’s a lot of retreading the same facts and odd doings (friends aren’t friends, boyfriend is a lying sack, someone in the house) and I saw the ending a mile off.
I’m not giving up on Paris, just hoping the next one is better.