Blurb:

One of them has killed before.
One of them will kill again.

In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba – a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison.

Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They’re a normal family, as long as they don’t talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice’s flashes of dark, dangerous fury.

Karen has kept what really happened that summer of ’97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice’s shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all …

Review:

The House Of Mirrors is one of those very rare books that I must review with a disclaimer. Nothing I can write will do justice to how brilliant it is and the only way you will really find out is to read it yourself. It is, without question, the best book I have read so far this year.

Erin Kelly is an amazing writer and from the first word of The House Of Mirrors I was totally hooked. She creates an atmosphere in such a subtle way that I didn’t even realise there was an atmosphere until it had got under my skin so much that I was holding my breath after the first few chapters. 

Each chapter in the novel is narrated by a different character. I loved the way this helped me to get to know them – the author has given them all very distinctive voices – even though I didn’t find any of them particularly likeable. The technique also allows Erin Kelly to let the reader discover secrets ahead of the characters and this creates the most glorious tension that had me swiping my Kindle as quickly as I possibly could to find out what would happen next.

The plotting in The House Of Mirrors is ridiculously intelligent and has so many layers and I loved delving deeper into the lives of the characters as I read more. It’s difficult to review the novel without saying too much, but I will say that I was captivated by every single twist!

I really need to read more of Erin Kelly’s work as soon as possible!

The House Of Mirrors is available from Amazon.