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📚 Book Review: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ | Psychological Thriller | 336 pages
“The perfect marriage… or the perfect lie?”
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🕵️♀️ A Domestic Thriller That Had Me Screaming “DIVORCE HIM!” Every 5 Pages
Let’s be honest. We all love a perfect couple... until we find out they’re not actually perfect and someone’s hiding a torture chamber in the basement.
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris is the ultimate “what’s really going on in that house?” story. The writing is sharp, the suspense is high, and the sense of dread? Deliciously unbearable. This one had me flipping pages like my Kindle was on fire.
🚪 What's It About?
Grace and Jack appear to have the dream life:
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Stunning house ✔️
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Fancy vacations ✔️
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Swoony romance ✔️
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One tiny issue: Jack is a raging psychopath.
Grace is smart, elegant, and a fiercely loyal sister to Millie, who has Down syndrome. Jack is a successful lawyer who specializes in domestic abuse cases. (Red flag? Yep. Many.) He’s charming and polished on the outside, but surprise! He’s an actual monster.
❗ SPOILER ALERT — This Section Contains Major Plot Details! ❗
On the outside, Jack is Prince Charming. On the inside? Straight-up Ted Bundy with a legal degree. He doesn’t want a wife—he wants someone he can control, and when he finds out Grace is guardian to Millie, he knows he’s found his next victim.
At first, everything is sunshine and George Clooney-level charm. But the second the wedding's over? BAM. Grace becomes a prisoner in her own home—literally. There’s a locked basement room, carefully calculated isolation, and psychological torture that escalates at an alarming rate.
Oh, and the puppy? Don’t get attached. (I'm still not over it.)
Jack’s ultimate plan is to bring Millie to live with them so he can truly terrorize both sisters. Millie, being the actual hero we all need, starts stockpiling sleeping pills at her boarding school like a tiny Agatha Christie fan. She gives them to Grace in a moment that had me sobbing and cheering.
Grace slips Jack the pills in his whiskey right before a planned trip to Thailand. She pretends he stayed behind for work while she flies off alone. Meanwhile, back home, Jack wakes up locked in his own personal hell—the basement red room—with no water, no escape, and just enough strength to suffer. (Poetic justice, anyone?)
Four days later, the cops find his body. Cause of death? Dehydration.
Esther, a friend who always suspected something was off, helps Grace nail the grieving widow act. Grace is free. Millie is safe. And Jack? He’s as dead as his soul.
💭 Final Thoughts
This was a wild, breathless ride. Every chapter was laced with dread, but I couldn’t look away. It’s creepy without being gory, and satisfying without being predictable.
Grace is the kind of protagonist you root for with your whole chest, and the final twist is chef’s kiss. Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Just don’t read it before bed unless you want trust issues with your spouse.
🎯 You’ll Love This If You Like:
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Fast-paced thrillers with domestic suspense
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Smart women outwitting evil men
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Books that make you shout “CALL THE POLICE” repeatedly
📚 More Like This:
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The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
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Verity by Colleen Hoover
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The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
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