Behind Closed Doors (Paris) - Book Reviews

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The title says it all: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS—the perfect marriage or the perfect lie? Author B.A. Paris does her readers a favor. Her cover design and title assuredly relay, "You’ll be reading a psychological thriller."” Thank you. It’s information most readers want at the onset—the need to know what we’re getting into.… By the time we figure out what we’re dealing with, we are hooked.  READ MORE …
Kathy Aspden, AUTHOR - LitLovers


A gripping domestic thriller…the sense of believably and terror that engulfs Behind Closed Doors doesn't waver.
Associated Press


Behind Closed Doors takes a classic tale to a whole new level….This was one of the best and [most] terrifying psychological thrillers I have ever read…. [E]ach chapter brings you further in, to the point where you feel how Grace must feel. The desperation, the feeling that no one will believe you and yet still wanting to fight because someone you care deeply about will get hurt.
San Francisco Book Review


A frighteningly cool portrait of a serious sadist, Behind Closed Doors is a gripping, claustrophobia-inducing thriller... Read at the risk of running from every handsome British lawyer who crosses your path.
Romantic Times


This book proves that looks are most definitely deceiving.... Disturbing, to say the least, readers will definitely be shaken as the story commences and they become immediately absorbed. The writing was incredible, and the pace is quick, offering up too many chills to count.... Behind Closed Doors screams: "Stay single!"
Suspense Magazine


Jack’s mustache-twirling monologues occasionally sap the story of tension and believability, but Grace’s terror is contagious, and Millie’s impending peril creates a ticking clock that propels this claustrophobic cat-and-mouse tale toward its grisly, gratifying conclusion.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review.) Debut-novelist Paris adroitly toggles between the recent past and the present in building the suspense of Grace’s increasingly unbearable situation, as time becomes critical and her possible solutions narrow. This is one readers won’t be able to put down.
Booklist


Paris undercuts her own suspense by allowing Jack to...recount his coming-to-villainy back story. Grace schemes a way to escape Jack's clutches and save Millie from the same fate, but the tension sags. An at times tense debut with a clever heroine caught in an overladen plot.
Kirkus Reviews