B.A. Paris. (2021). The Therapist: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

B.A. Paris. 2021. The Therapist: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

B.A. Paris, The Therapist: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

B.A. Paris. The Therapist: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

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   • bioText: B.A. PARIS is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, Bring Me Back, The Dilemma, and The Therapist. Having lived in France for many years, she and her husband now live in the UK. She has worked both in finance and as a teacher, and she has five daughters.
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The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist—a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret.
When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive...
As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before.
Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem...

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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "The Circle evokes the chills of 'The Stepford Wives.' A well-crafted psychological thriller."
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   • source: Mystery & Suspense Magazine
   • content: "As the story progresses, the reader learns new information, and Alice soon suspects everyone around her as the possible killer. The readers are right there with her wondering who to trust or if anyone is even trustworthy. The plot twist will come as a surprise and keep you flipping through the pages until the very end."
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   • source: Providence Journal
   • content: "Psychological thrillers don't get any better than B.A. Paris' scorching The Therapist, one of those books that make you want to draw the blinds to make sure nobody's peeking inside."
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   • source: Parkersburg News and Sentinel
   • content: "There's plenty of guessing and twists in this story of obsession that will leave readers wondering who to trust."
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   • source: Catherine Steadman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something In The Water and The Disappearing Act
   • content: "A whodunnit domestic thriller that will keep you guessing until the final page. In the Circle everyone is a suspect and everyone has a motive. A pacy page-turner that fans of Those People will love!"
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   • source: Tarryn Fisher, New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Family
   • content: "B.A. Paris knows how to build suspense in an unforgettable way."
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   • source: Jane Corry, bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
   • content: "A delicious web of lies."
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     February 1, 2021
     

     During a party she and Leo throw to meet their neighbors after moving into a gated residence in London, Alice shows Tim around their new house, then learns later that he's not from the residence. Tim soon shows up to explain that a murder took place in the house 18 months previously, and Alice begins to investigate. From the multi-million-best-selling Paris; with a 350,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     June 1, 2021
     Alice and her boyfriend, Leo, face a chilly reception when they move to a home on the Circle, a gated London street. Alice feels she's made strides toward winning over the new neighbors at an impromptu housewarming party, but when she discovers that her party was secretly crashed by a private investigator, she senses a darker story emerging. Nina Maxwell, former owner of Alice's home, was murdered in the house, and her husband, Oliver, was accused of the crime. Alice reels; Leo was determined to buy that particular house, and he lied to her about how it became affordable. Why? Thomas Grainger, the PI at the party, is working to prove Oliver's innocence, and Alice agrees to be his eyes and ears in the Circle, quickly learning that Nina was likely having an affair with one of the neighborhood husbands. The more Alice probes, the more everyone, even the semireclusive retirees down the street, begins behaving suspiciously. Alice's naivete is straight out of a horror film, heightening the suspense, while the Circle evokes the chills of The Stepford Wives. A well-crafted psychological thriller.

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      June 21, 2021
      After Alice Dawson, the narrator of this twisty if flawed psychological thriller from bestseller Paris (The Dilemma), and her boyfriend, Leo Curtis, move into a house in a London gated community, Alice can’t figure out why the neighbors keep their distance. Then she learns from Thomas Grainger, a private investigator who appears at the door, that the previous occupant, therapist Nina Maxwell, was murdered there more than a year earlier; Nina’s husband, now dead, was falsely accused of the crime, and Thomas is looking into a miscarriage of justice. Alice reels at the news. Why did Leo, who handled the sale and must have heard about the murder from the estate agent, not tell her? That Alice’s deceased sister was named Nina makes her prone to take a strong interest in anyone with that name, and she determines to help Thomas investigate. Alice soon discovers everyone in the community has secrets, including Leo. An intriguing setup and a closed circle of well-drawn suspects compensate only in part for a confusing conclusion and Alice’s unconvincing reason to get involved in the murder case. Paris has done better. Agent: Camilla Wray, Darley Anderson (U.K.).

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      June 18, 2021
      

      Alice and Leo have been dating long-distance when he asks her to move with him to London, into a posh gated community called the Circle. While Alice is reluctant to leave her home in the English countryside, she loves Leo and wants a future with him. As soon as they move in, she learns that their new home is the site where a therapist named Nina was allegedly killed by her husband. Why didn't Leo tell her about the home's history? Alice decides to play sleuth and solve the mystery, even though everyone on their block is convinced it was Nina's husband. As Alice tries to befriend her neighbors and break into their inner circle, she becomes more and more suspicious of everyone, including Leo. She eventually joins forces with a private detective who is also investigating Nina's death. VERDICT Paris's fifth novel (after The Dilemma) is not on the same level as her great debut, Behind Closed Doors. Alice is overeager, insipid, and immature; she makes terrible decisions and flails willy-nilly throughout the story. Supporting characters are not fleshed out nor likable, making it hard to become invested. The big reveal is unconvincing, and the killer's backstory isn't particularly believable. Only for diehard Paris fans.--Marianne Fitzgerald, Severna Park H.S., MD

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from June 1, 2021
      Having just moved to London with her partner, a woman seeks to discover the truth behind the murder/suicide of her home's previous occupants. Alice is a 35-year-old freelance translator who has recently uprooted herself from her cottage in Harlestone and moved to London to live full time with Leo, her long-distance partner of a year and half. They were previously able to see each other only on weekends, and this move is supposed to be the start of the rest of their lives. Upon moving into The Circle--as their gated cul-de-sac of 12 houses is called--things just seem a little off, and Leo doesn't want Alice getting involved with the neighbors or inviting them over. But invite them she does, and Maria and Tim, Tamsin and Connor, Eve and Will, and Cara and Paul all accept her invitation on the neighborhood group chat to join her and Leo for drinks in their garden. But when Alice discovers that an uninvited guest--a man she'd thought was Tim--has shown up and then disappeared without anyone else seeing him, her hackles are raised. And then she discovers that her home's previous occupant--Nina, a therapist with the same name as her own beloved dead sister--was brutally murdered in the house and that Nina's husband, Oliver, killed himself when he was arrested for the crime. Alice is determined to get to the bottom of the murder and discover just what her neighbors in The Circle are hiding. Author Paris has done a masterful job of upping the creep factor in this volume, hinting at the secrets that everyone is hiding and peeling back, layer by layer, the story of what happened to Nina and Oliver as Alice goes through her day-to-day life and struggles to make new friends and deal with her suspicions. As in her other books, Paris has created complex, flawed characters who grapple with death, obsessions, and fear as they try to live their lives. This enthralling book is a mystery, a thriller, and an exploration of how trust--or the lack of it--can color relationships.

      COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive...
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