Unfortunately, I was unable to get into Behind Closed Doors, and gave up half way through. Although I was reasonably interested in Scarlett’s story, I wasn’t keen on other aspects of the novel. I didn’t find the police procedural sections very interesting, and felt it dragged me away from Scarlett’s story.

I also didn’t fully understand the point of the police intelligence reports. They just felt like they interrupted the flow of the story, and the witness statements were so tiny, they were quite hard to read on a basic Kindle.

Having said that, I loved Into the Darkest Corner, so I’m still interested in future books by this author. This one just wasn’t for me.

I would like to thank the publisher, Little, Brown Book Group UK, Sphere, for allowing me a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Scarlett, her sister, Juliette and parents are in Greece on holiday but on their last night Scarlett is snatched and not seen for another 10 years when she is 25 years old. She has had a harrowing life in the sex trade, being moved from country to country - there is no one to trust, no one to be kind, just one horrible day follows another. Her family were also peculiar. This is a very grim book, well written but could have been better with a little less police jargon and procedure which began to be a bit wearing. There were also too many characters who only seemed to appear in the police internal email. This is the first book I have read by this author and I will definitely read some of her others.

Got pretty boring about half way through, hard to finish.