Woman with a Secret

A Novel

By: Sophie Hannah

Narrated by: David Thorpe, Julia Barrie

Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

The New York Times best-selling author of The Monogram Murders - in the ranks of Ruth Rendell, Deborah Crombie, Kimberly McCreight, and Tana French - makes her William Morrow debut with a dark and chilling psychological thriller in which a woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in her past is drawn into a murder investigation.

Traffic on Elmhirst Road has come to a halt. The police are stopping cars, searching for something. Nicki Clements waits patiently, until she glimpses a face she hoped she'd never see again. It's him - and he's the cop checking each car. Desperate to avoid him, she makes a panicky U-turn and escapes.

But Nicki's peculiar behavior did not go unnoticed, and now the police have summoned her for questioning. A resident of Elmhirst Road has been murdered - a controversial newspaper columnist named Damon Blundy. The detectives begin peppering her with questions. Why was she seen fleeing the scene? What is her connection to the victim? Why was the knife that killed him used in such a peculiar way? Why were the words "HE IS NO LESS DEAD" painted on the wall of Blundy's study - and what do they signify?

One simple answer could clear her. But she can't explain why she fled Elmhirst Road that day without revealing the secret that could ruin her.

Nicki isn't guilty of murder. But she's far from innocent....

©2015 Sophie Hannah (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers

disappointed

I couldn't get into this book from the start. It drove me insane listening to the email exchanges. The preformers were the only good thing for me.

Not the high light of my summer book list

I can't get past the fact that the "main character," who tells much of the story in the first person, is in fact a side figure . The woman does not even rate a wrap up if her final adventure. I also hated listening to each email being read through with date, name and email address through many exchanges in a row. Poo

hard to get into story

interesting story once I finally figured out what was going on. it switched back & forth a lot between the main characters ... solution to the mystery was convoluted & no way for the reader to figure out until it was explained.

Well done story with psychological insights into relationships

I began listening to this story, and couldn’t make it through the first chapter, as it sounded uninspired...but it is for a Book Club discussion so I tried again a week later. By the second chapter I was hooked!
I thoroughly enjoyed this — it was an unpredictable story, right on to the last few minutes.
It was easy to understand Nikki, the main character, why she did what she did.
Through this book, learned a bit about some of my own relationships.
Would highly recommend it to any open-minded person.
Definitely glad I listened to it.

Main character is impossibly flawed.

This is the first book I have ever "exchanged" through Audible. I liked the Sophie Hannah -Agatha Christie books, so I thought I would like this author's other books. NOT SO!. The main character is very unrealistic ,and boring. I really tried to get into the story, to find some element of sympathy for the character, but it was a waste of my time. Definitely do not recommend this book. I hope I do not have a problem getting my credit back.

Tedious, could not get into the story at all!!

Intro takes forever, kept waiting for something to grab my interest, one of a few books I did nit want to finish!!

boring.

This book will bore you to death so write a will before you begin it. I often thought it would be more enjoyable to listen to the sound of a beaver gnawing me to death slowly then this book. That's 12 hrs of my life I will never get back.

Annoyed!

Thought it had to many pointless characters and got confusing, the whole story line was dumb.... Complete waste of time!