She thinks it was murder. 
But if she can’t trust herself, can anyone else?  

Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new flat, a new area, a new start. Because while Nancy is fine now, she wasn’t fine before. But settling into the new flat and meeting the new neighbours isn’t helped by Felix’s hovering concern. She is all right. She is sticking to her breathing exercises and doctor-prescribed help.  

So, when their new neighbour Kira Mullan is found dead by suicide, Felix is understandably worried about Nancy’s frame of mind. But Nancy saw Kira the day before she died and she didn’t strike her as someone who was suicidal – she was upset and angry, yes, but was she upset and angry enough to take her own life?  

Nancy is the only one convinced that there’s more to Kira’s death than has been discovered. But all the police and the neighbours see is a vulnerable woman who isn’t sure of what she saw, and might even be imagining things . . .  

Is Nancy imagining things, or are there more questions that should be asked about the last days of Kira Mullan?  

My Thoughts:

I was so glad to see Nicci had written another book as I have previously enjoyed her books. This one is about Nancy who is about to embark on the biggest time of her life. Moving home and starting a fresh new start in her life with her boyfriend Nancy hopes this is the break that she needs to get away from the past or is it? When something really bad happens right next door to her, Nancy does not know how to recover and her boyfriend is worried history is repeating itself again but can he do something before it is too late? I liked how the story page by page was like peeling an onion, we get to find out more about Nancy throughout the book and hit key parts just as they are about to break. Well thought out storyline as always and well rounded characters. Nicci’s books just get better and better.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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