LOCKED DOORS DON’T KEEP SECRETS SAFELOCK YOUR DOORSCaitlin has been having an affair for nearly a year when the country enters lock down. Suddenly, seeing her lover, Daniel, without alerting her husband becomes almost impossible. When she does manage to sneak to his home, she finds him lying in a pool of his own blood, dead.STAY HOMEAli is a just-about-functioning alcoholic, recently let go, and … just-about-functioning alcoholic, recently let go, and feeling rather lonely. Each day she goes to her local shop to buy her permitted two bottles of wine, leaving food parcels for neighbours on her way home. While keeping an eye on what they are up to, of course.
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Caitlin can’t tell a soul about what she has discovered for risk of losing her family. Little does she know that Ali has noticed her coming and going, and that she will be drawing her own conclusions.
As Caitlin delves into the life of the man who said he loved her, she finds that maybe she didn’t really know him at all. But if she wants to avoid suspicion, she needs to keep digging until they find Daniel’s killer. Because the doors may be locked, but everyone’s secrets are starting to leak out . . .
Stay Home is a timely story of dark secrets – affairs, addictions, habits and horrors – which are bought to the surface by these unprecedented times we find ourselves in. It explores the dark parts of people’s lives, while at the same time leading us on a breath-takingly twisty race to find a killer.
What Netgalley Readers think of Stay Home:
‘An exciting thriller that is perfect for current times . . . Highly recommended!’
‘A great book. It was a fast read because I couldn’t put it down. So many twists and turns you will never see the end coming’
‘A murder mystery set during the limitations of a pandemic lockdown is an intriguing idea and Ava Pierce has certainly delivered a book you won’t want to put down. The characters, especially Ali, are well described and seem real. The story itself is very visual and would make a wonderful movie. 5 stars’
‘The story is thrilling and you are kept turning the pages until the very end. The twists and turns are shocking and the characters interesting. Definitely worth a read’
‘Wow, I read it in a couple of hours, lots of twists and turns’
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Caitlin has been having an affair with Daniel for almost a year. When the country goes into lockdown, spending time together without her husband finding out is almost impossible. But she manages to sneak out ….
When arriving at his home, she finds Daniel lying on the floor, blood surrounding him. He is obviously dead.
She can’t report this …. or her husband will discover her secret. What she doesn’t know is tht a neighbor, Ali, sees Caitlin running out of Daniel’s house.
Afraid of being accused of Daniel’s murder. she starts looking for a reason that someone wanted Daniel. What she finds is that maybe she didn’t know him as well as she thought. And how long can she keep her secret? Especially when her neighbor jumps to conclusions?
There are so many layers in this novel … love, angst, lies, secrets, affairs, addictions. It explores the dark parts of people’s lives, while at the same time leading us on a breath-takingly twisty race to find a killer. It’s well written with characters that stand out in swirl of twists and turns that lead to an unexpected, surprising conclusion.
Many thanks to the author / Hodder & Stoughton / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Two women become unlikely friends and amateur sleuths as they try to figure out what happened to their handsome neighbor Daniel. One of them is the drunk neighbor next door who has nothing better to do other than spy on him and the other is his lover although she is married. This book was okay and I found it to be a quick read, but I also found it to be unsuspenseful and it was easy to figure out who the killer was. It is your typical, pretty uneventful whodunit story. Thank you NetGalley and the pubisher for this free sample. This review is stricly my own and voluntary.
Caitlin is having an affair. She is hiding it from her husband and children and when the country goes into lockdown because of Covid, she is unable to see Daniel, her lover. On the day she decides to go over to his house, she finds him in his apartment, dead. Little does she know that she has been seen and everything she has is about to go up in flames.
Ali lives across from Daniel and is a bit of a snoop. She has been watching Caitlin and knows about the affair. She has a pretty big drinking problem and as she is sneaking into Daniel’s she also finds him dead and remembers seeing Caitlin leave and figures she must have done it. When the two confront eachother, they realize there is more to Daniel than what they ever could have imagined.
I really liked the plot of this story and it could have been really good. The issue was the inner dialoge for me. There was so much of it. Also, the POV’s didn’t make sense at times (you would have to read it to understand though). There was a lot of potential here, but unfortuantely the execution was a bit lacking. Thanks to Netgalley, Hodder and Stoughton and the author for an early copy.