Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Length: 352 pages
Audiobook Length: 8 hours and 52 minutes
First Published: 2016
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Rachael’s Review
Jack and Grace seem to be the perfect couple. He’s a high-powered attorney who defends abused women and she’s the perfect housewife. Yet looks can be deceiving, Grace is a prisoner in her own house, forced to act as Jack sees fit. As the day nears for Grace’s sister with Down Syndrome to move in with them, Grace must find a way to negate Jack’s leverage and escape.
Although I spent the whole novel wanting to yell at Grace to just act, Paris does an excellent job making this implausible scenario feel plausible. Compulsively readable, Behind Closed Doors is the perfect psychological thriller if you want fast-paced action you can’t put it down.
Publisher’s Description
The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.
Quotes from Behind Closed Doors
I can’t help thinking it’s a shame he’s such a sadistic bastard, because he has wonderful manners.
I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be
Pretending to be broken would be much harder, simply because it was in my nature to fight back.
About B. A. Paris
B. A. Paris the author of Behind Closed Doors, The Prisoner, The Breakdown, Bring Me Back, The Dilemma, and The Therapist. She grew up in England but currently lives in France.
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