Book info

• Title The Red Room
• Author Nicci French
• Year 2001
• Genre Thriller

Enter the Red Room - where nightmares become reality He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands... After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crimes, the nearer Kit gets to the dark heart of her own terror.

Thoughts

Another solid story from Nicci French, I quite liked this one particularly because it was about a crime that didn’t happen to our main protagonist. Whilst there was still an air of tension surrounding our hero, you at least didn’t read the whole thing feeling like she was in mortal danger.

So, the story is about a few random murders that look like they may be related but the link between them remains elusive… even when the police are sure they’ve found the answer. In this book, like in many other French books, there’s an element of the police just not listening, which is so frustrating to read but you sort of have to understand their point of view, particularly in this one.

Overall it’s a good story, though, and it all comes to a satisfying conclusion, if a slightly depressing ending.

Rating: 4 / 5