Today I’m joining the blog tour for The Woman Downstairs. My review is written with thanks to the team at Bookouture for inviting me on the tour and for my copy of the book.

Blurb:.

On the first day I meet my new neighbour, we share a glass of wine and talk into the night. We swap numbers and I vow to get to know her better. But as I get closer to her, I discover something about her past that changes everything. She isn’t who I thought she was.

Then when I step into her home, my jaw drops. Everything in here is identical to my own flat – every cushion, every picture on the wall.

Except for the knife, covered in blood. My heart pounds in my chest. What has she done? What is she capable of?

I should never have come here. I should never have got close to her. I need to run.

But then I hear a creak outside the door. And I realise, it may be too late…

Review:

JD Kirk has a clear and well executed idea of what a psychological thriller should be. The Woman Downstairs is fast paced, full of tension and it has not just one, but two unreliable narrators who keep the readers thinking about what will happen next. I found the novel very easy to read and I enjoyed following the different twists and turns.

The Woman Downstairs is narrated mostly by Diane and Chloe, and this helped me to gain insight into their characters and the dynamic between them. It is clear from the very first page that there will be tension between them and I wanted to keep reading to find out both why and how this would manifest itself. As I mentioned before, Diane and Chloe are both characters whose behaviour is influenced by events in the past which have affected their grip on reality and this made me question their reliability and piqued my interest further about what was going on between them.

As the tension builds towards the end of the novel, I was holding my breath as I waited to find out what would happen. Although there were some elements of the story that went in the direction I predicted, there were still some surprises that kept me on my toes.
Although I suspect that The Woman Downstairs was written as a standalone novel, I loved the open ending that made me think about what might happen if the story were to continue.

The Woman Downstairs is available from Amazon.

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