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Title details for The Other Side of the Door by Nicci French - Available

The Other Side of the Door

A Novel

by Nicci French
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?

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  • Release date

    April 27, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780063010666
      • File size: 344360 KB
      • Duration: 11:57:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Three middle-aged women in England share their lives and have more in common than they think. Anne Flosnik uses an Australian accent that is easy to listen to and appropriate to the story. She has a facile way of changing characters, giving them their own voices without being extreme. The women's relationships are complicated. The men in their lives cause heartaches and rivalries. But it takes a real friend to help dispose of the body of an old lover. The device of "before" and "after" used to tell the story is somewhat distracting and makes it a bit difficult to figure out the plot. As a result, listening requires concentration. N.K.L. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 15, 2010
      At the start of this pitch-perfect thriller from British author French, the husband-wife team of Sean French and Nicci Gerard, band singer Bonnie finds her “summer fling” boyfriend and fellow band member, Hayden, dead on the floor of a friend's London apartment. She proceeds to hide the corpse and obliterate every sign of her presence at the crime scene. This course of action is, predictably, full of pitfalls. Hayden's well-known involvement with other women could have provided Bonnie a motive for murder. To complicate matters, at least one more person appears to have altered the crime scene. Told in a tantalizing series of flashbacks, the narrative draws you into the inner world of the protagonist, a “tough cookie” who nevertheless endures a relationship that's so abusive the reader is never quite sure that she did not, in fact, snap. French (Until It's Over
      ) takes the time to tease out individual characters to a degree seldom seen in crime fiction, saving the final plot twist for the last page.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Fans of Nicci French's Frieda Klein series may be less delighted by the authors' new audio thriller, a one-off about a music teacher named Bonnie who puts together a summer pickup band to play for a friend's wedding. The group is joined by an appealing but obviously disruptive rocker of some reputation who begins seducing people he shouldn't, appropriating funds not his, and (surprise!) is soon found dead in his borrowed apartment. What happened before and following the death is told in alternating shifts in time-frame jumps, the current crime novel on-trend device for manipulating the clue supply. Imogen Church does her enthusiastic and largely successful best to make this entertaining, but her weird pronunciations of featured characters' names (Amos and Joachim) distract needlessly. Was nobody producing? B.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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