Thanks so much to NetGalley, St Martin's Press and BA Paris for the opportunity to read and review this great book!
If the sign of a good book is that you literally.can't.put.it.down - then 5 stars to The Breakdown! I just finished it, still in my jammies, all work that I was supposed to do today left undone. Because I just had to finish this book!
I loved Behind Closed Doors and the author's latest is another thriller. The author is gifted at drawing you in, making you feel what the characters are going through, and not letting you go until the end.
Cass is a newly-married high school teacher, looking forward to summer break after a tough time. Her mother had early onset dementia whom Cass put everything on hold for to take care of. After her mom died, her teaching job was her way of rejoining life.
She is coming home from an end-of-school-year event, in the midst of a horrible storm, and decides to take a shortcut through the woods to home, even though she promised her husband she wouldn't. She passes by a car parked alongside the road with a woman inside - she pulls over thinking the woman will run out to her if she is in trouble. Cass is hesitant to get out of her own car in the raging storm, so she eventually pulls away. She later learns that the woman was murdered in her car. Cass doesn't tell anyone, not even her husband, that she saw the woman because she is filled with guilt that she didn't help her.
Then the silent phone calls start. Cass feels like someone is watching her and knows that she was there that night. Things at her house start happening as well as Cass starts experiencing periods of forgetfulness. She fears that she is developing dementia like her mother.
This is just a great thriller - I loved it!
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