But for me, a happily married mother of three, Paris posits a much more compelling, and frankly more dastardly set of questions.
It’s fun here, almost cartoonish with its Snidely Whiplash villain and the gossimar girls he seeks to torment. However, this is not the level on which the book works for me. Are you taken in? Does the outside world recede into the distance, while a victimized woman’s universe is reduced to the confining walls around her? For another provocative thriller about marriage, read Jordana’s review of You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz.īehind Closed Doors sets the scene well and truly does persuade the reader that Grace is a prisoner in a well-to-do suburban McMansion, victim to the unthinkably sadistic plans of her monstrous husband. Still, dark psychological thrillers are less about plausibility than mood. It reads fast and compels you with urgency and diabolical badness – a smooth cocktail in pleasure reading, to be sure.īut there are gaping holes and suspensions of disbelief required, and if you poke too hard - that is to say if you poke at all - the whole show dissolves fast.
Hovering somewhere between bad-guy classics like Gaslight and Lifetime Movie Network’s tastiest women in peril pulp, the story is effective and engaging.
Paris’s Behind Closed Doors as an addictive tale of nice-girl-meets-psychopathic-husband, you’ll have a good time.
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