In March of 2024 I learn “Has Anybody Seen Charlotte Salter?” and in my evaluate of that novel wrote: “If there’s a star of the novel, for me it was Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor. If the authors determine to characteristic her in future books, I will probably be first in line to learn them.”  Effectively of us, lastly, I had the pleasure of studying the second Maud O’Connor novel,
“The Final Days of Kira Mullan” and it was simply as compelling as its predecessor. Although in all honesty, you needn’t learn the primary to understand the second. It really works superbly as a stand-alone.

As with the primary e-book, the protagonist was not the shrewd and perceptive policewoman Maud O’Connor, however one other younger lady named Nancy North. We meet Nancy when she is shifting from a pleasant flat, which she loves, to a extra grungy flat in one other a part of London. She and her accomplice, Felix, are experiencing monetary issues after Nancy had a psychological breakdown and misplaced her restaurant enterprise. The home the place they transfer has been dividing into tiny flats that aren’t maintained nicely by their landlord. She meets her new neighbours, that are a blended bag of twenty and thirty somethings dwelling on low incomes. Very shortly after Nancy and Felix transfer in, certainly one of their neighbours, a younger lady by the title of Kira Mullan, is discovered lifeless in her flat, hanging… The police deem her demise a suicide.  Nancy although, doesn’t agree with their verdict. She met Kira for just a few moments and he or she is satisfied that Kira was murdered.

Due to her earlier psychological breakdown, Felix, together with all her different new neighbours consider that Nancy is delusional and mentally unstable. They go as far as to have her ‘sectioned’. What follows is a devastating hospital keep for Nancy, a lady who’s hanging by a thread emotionally.

As time passes, it turns into clear that Nancy is in reality not mad in any respect. Felix and the others are ‘gas-lighting’ her. However for what cause?

Enter Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor, who’s the one one to consider in Nancy’s concept. Maud just isn’t standard together with her co-workers. She just isn’t seen as a ‘crew participant’ and her re-opening of the Kira Mullan case after the police have been happy it was a suicide, enhances her unpopularity amongst her misogynistic police co-workers.

I actually bonded emotionally with Nancy. I felt her desperation, confusion, and anguish. This novel was a harrowing take a look at coercive management and energy imbalances inside relationships.

Skillfully narrated by Sophie Roberts, the novel had me riveted.

The writing, as is common for this writing pair, was top-notch, each in characterization and scene description. I used to be mesmerized by the novel, and completely loved each phrase. One other win for the writing duo of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Suspenseful, distressing, atmospheric and twisty, this novel had the whole lot lovers of the style take pleasure in.  Extremely really helpful!

This evaluate was written voluntarily. I listened to the novel on audiobook by way of the Libby app. Revealed by Harper Audio. Unabridged.

Listening time roughly 11 hours – 34 minutes

Publication date: March 4, 2025
Writer: Harper Audio/Harper Collins
ASIN: ‎B0D6CZZHMW

Nicci French is pen title of English authors Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thriller novels collectively. Gerrard and French have been married in 1990. They write individually after which re-write one another’s work. Each authors have additionally written solo novels.  They stay in Suffolk and London, England. Collectively, they’ve written 25 novels and a number of other brief tales.

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Sophie Roberts is a BBC Carleton-Hobbs and AudioFile Earphones award-winning voiceover artist, audiobook narrator and actress with a transparent, heat, impartial British RP accent and almost twenty years’ expertise. She information from her acoustically-treated skilled residence studio in Berkshire, or she will journey to a studio of your alternative.

Sophie skilled as an actor on the Guildhall Faculty of Music & Drama, and in audio on the BBC. After working for ten years in theatre, movie, tv and radio drama, she now specialises virtually solely in voiceover and audiobook narration. She can also be a tutor on the Royal Welsh School of Music & Drama.

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