Behind Closed Doors: The gripping psychological thriller everyone is raving about

Behind Closed Doors: The gripping psychological thriller everyone is raving about
B A Paris

**Bring Me Back, the new gripping thriller by B A Paris, is available now**‘If you love The Girl on the Train read Behind Closed Doors’ – ELLE magazineEveryone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.You’d like to get to know Grace better.But it’s difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart.Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie.The new book by bestselling author BA Paris, Bring Me Back, is available to pre-order now‘This outstanding novel will leave you breathless.’-Bella

Praise for B A Paris

‘An addictive new voice in suspense fiction’

Sophie Hannah

‘A psychological page-turner’

Good Housekeeping

‘Gripping!’

Woman

‘You’ll love this’

The Sun

‘Chilling’

Heat

‘Utterly compelling, brilliant and tense.’

Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me

‘If you loved The Girl on the Train read Behind Closed Doors’

Elle

‘Brilliant, chilling, scary and unputdownable.’

Lesley Pearse, bestselling author of Without a Trace

‘BA Paris has done it again! A page turning thriller that will leave you questioning the family you love, the friends you trust, and even your own mind.’

Wendy Walker, author of All is Not Forgotten

B. A. PARIS is from a Franco/Irish background. She was brought up in England and moved to France where she spent some years working as a trader in an international bank before re-training as a teacher and setting up a language school with her husband. They still live in France and have five daughters. This is her first novel.

ISBN: 978-1-474-03794-5

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

© 2016 B A Paris

Published in Great Britain 2016

by HQ, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

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Version: 2018-04-17

For my daughters

Sophie, Chloë, Céline, Eloïse, Margaux

Table of Contents

Cover (#ub05b1526-38a3-54e1-9417-f3354d717e3c)

About the Author (#u93620b11-813e-56eb-a723-c4967541e199)

Title Page (#u2ac3420a-de07-5f2e-b0f7-631dce8b4df3)

Copyright (#u9a86d8ef-d962-5b94-a3e5-a7a01b026def)

Dedication (#ud6bf9e49-b54d-5b7f-ad28-db728eab5a59)

Begin Reading (#ulink_654016f1-6df0-51b5-b7c4-cca682ee0e13)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

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About The Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PRESENT (#ulink_d598a3b1-76f1-5c29-ad5f-769b25c2fc14)

The champagne bottle knocks against the marble kitchen counter, making me jump. I glance at Jack, hoping he won’t have noticed how nervous I am. He catches me looking and smiles.

‘Perfect,’ he says softly.

Taking my hand, he leads me to where our guests are waiting. As we go through the hall, I see the flowering lily Diane and Adam brought us for our garden. It’s such a beautiful pink that I hope Jack will plant it where I’ll be able to see it from the bedroom window. Just thinking of the garden makes tears well up from deep inside me and I swallow them down quickly. With so much at stake tonight, I need to concentrate on the here and now.

In the sitting room, a fire burns steadily in the antique grate. We’re well into March but there’s still a nip in the air and Jack likes our guests to be as comfortable as possible.

‘Your house is really something, Jack,’ Rufus says admiringly. ‘Don’t you think so, Esther?’

I don’t know Rufus or Esther. They are new to the area and tonight is the first time we’ve met, which makes me feel more nervous than I already am. But I can’t afford to let Jack down, so I fix a smile on my face, praying that they’ll like me. Esther doesn’t smile back, so I guess she’s reserving judgement. But I can’t blame her. Since joining our circle of friends a month ago, I’m sure she’s been told over and over again that Grace Angel, wife of brilliant lawyer Jack Angel, is a perfect example of a woman who has it all—the perfect house, the perfect husband, the perfect life. If I were Esther, I’d be wary of me too.