A review by bluestarfish
Beneath the Skin by Nicci French

3.0

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...)