JUNE 2021 - AudioFile
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
From the Publisher
A pitch-perfect thriller . . . French 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.” — Publishers Weekly
“[The Other Side of the Door] cleverly weaves the story of a stifling summer punctuated by a violent murder and the disposal of the corpse. . . . A skillfully woven tapestry . . . In the end, the carefully constructed plot is the real hero.” — The Independent (UK)
“Nicci French always delivers a solid, tense, quality read, and [The Other Side of the Door] is no exception. . . . A Nicci French book is always so easy to absorb, and by the clever plotting and high tension in the last part of the book, which is where most crime fiction tends to relapse into predictability or worse, she lifts this novel from standard fare to something more original and biting.” — Euro Crime
"Razor-sharp writing by French expertly amps the tension." — People
“International best-seller French belongs on every thriller fan’s TBR list.” — Booklist
"Longtime fans of French will find their high expectations rewarded, while newcomers will be motivated to explore the author’s backlist. I envy their discovery." — Bookreporter.com
“Attention, fans of Tana French and Ruth Ware: meet your new obsession. . . . Those utterly ingenious plots, those nuanced characters, that satin-smooth writing . . . Psychological suspense at its brightest and most blazing.” — A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Bookreporter.com
"Longtime fans of French will find their high expectations rewarded, while newcomers will be motivated to explore the author’s backlist. I envy their discovery."
The Independent (UK)
[The Other Side of the Door] cleverly weaves the story of a stifling summer punctuated by a violent murder and the disposal of the corpse. . . . A skillfully woven tapestry . . . In the end, the carefully constructed plot is the real hero.
Euro Crime
Nicci French always delivers a solid, tense, quality read, and [The Other Side of the Door] is no exception. . . . A Nicci French book is always so easy to absorb, and by the clever plotting and high tension in the last part of the book, which is where most crime fiction tends to relapse into predictability or worse, she lifts this novel from standard fare to something more original and biting.
People
"Razor-sharp writing by French expertly amps the tension."
A.J. Finn
Attention, fans of Tana French and Ruth Ware: meet your new obsession. . . . Those utterly ingenious plots, those nuanced characters, that satin-smooth writing . . . Psychological suspense at its brightest and most blazing.
Booklist
International best-seller French belongs on every thriller fan’s TBR list.
Booklist
International best-seller French belongs on every thriller fan’s TBR list.
JUNE 2021 - AudioFile
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
