This book left me feeling unnerved and queasy from the unlikeable characters and situation in the story as a whole. The main character is a doctor, but she makes one stupid decision after another, making it very difficult to like or understand her. Imagine her surprise when she see's that it's Liam, her boyfriend for a summer when she was 18 years old, the one she has thought of often throughout the years wondering what happened to him. When the police show up at the station instead of Liam, Jude realizes that she knows nothing about the man he’s become. I found Jude to be a very frustrating character, and I wanted to shake her numerous times and shout at her to stop going found to 'that house'.

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It's been eleven years since they last saw each other but Liam has come to ask a favor and Jude agrees, how could she not? My Thoughts: This book is labeled as a thriller, but I feel like it is more like fiction with an element of mystery, this is not a bad thing, as I throughly enjoyed this book. Masquerading as crime fiction, beneath the facade is a covid/lockdown novel (despite the text making never a mention of either) which, at heart, thinks about who we are when all our usual support structures and routines disappear. In true Nicci French style, each chapter adds another wrinkle to the plot, ensuring that the reader is kept guessing at every turn. This book started out so intriguing when Jude’s old boyfriend, who she hasn’t heard from in many years, contacts her for a favor.In some ways it’s almost impossible to believe Jude agrees to do a favour – without knowing ANYTHING about the request – for ex high school boyfriend Liam.

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I did hope for more of a shock at the end of the book as I did manage to piece together who the killer was at just over halfway through.Then she enters Liam's adult world, his weird ass house that reminds me of a circus, with unsavoury, sexually aggressive, lost people, and develops her first singular opinion. Liam vraagt haar om een bijzondere gunst: zou ze hem in het weekend willen ontmoeten in een cottage in Norfolk? He was her first love, and even though she is now a successful doctor and about to get married, he will always be someone special to her. In 1995 Nicci and Sean began work on their first joint novel and adopted the pseudonym of Nicci French.