The break-in by Katherine Faulkner (Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2025)
Alice, an art gallery director and curator finds that an armed young man is trying to enter her posh house where her young daughter is playing under the supervision of her nanny. The man does not stop when Alice calls him out. She panics and strikes him from behind and he dies.
Newspapers report the next day that he lived in a nearby council home and was a disturbed adolescent. Alice acted in self defense or rather in defense of her daughter and she is let free.
She herself is traumatized and tries to find out more details. One clue leads to another; one action invites another and soon Alice's marriage and her whole world come tumbling down.
Simple writing style, short chapters and a limited cast of characters make for a gripping tale of deception.
I was hooked.
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