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It's an oppressive summer in London and three women are targeted by love letters that threaten to kill them. The first person narrative gives it all a claustrophobic feel of the world's shrinking with fear, and there's a very clever use of us as readers knowing more than the characters that really helps maintain that tension. (There's also an interesting, and strong, undertow of the sentiment that you are all by yourself and can't rely on anyone else. I can see how this genre lends itself to that, but still remain unconvinced by that as an ideology...)

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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5.0

I've read this in 2017 but I've forgotten all of it so it was like I read a brand new story. The writing was somewhat simplistic but the intensity of this was superb. It was very long time ago since I've read a thriller book where I was so intensley engaged and glued to the page. I had to take breaks on this as my emotions while reading this book where so intense and this was one of the rare novels that actually made me wanna bite my nails. The kidnapping in the beginning, is not the worst I've read but Nicci French made it feels like I could Imagen the discomfort and horror to be in the situation. And the story after just keept the intensity. ( Wow how many time can I use the word intense?

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