Set in the posh middle-class area of Bristol, Lies at Her Door by A.A.Abbott is a whodunnit with a bourgeois touch exploring young friendships and betrayal.
The quiet beauty of the Georgian houses is shattered by the discovery of a bunch of human remains in Lucy Freeman´s yard during an accidental giant sinkhole collapse. In her early 30s, Freeman seems to go through a moment of self-doubt and insatisfaction: a carer for her terminally ill mother, with a life in the shadow of her successful music star brother. The accident will though completely shake her world, especially after it is proved that the remains belong to Jason Jardene, an ex-member of her brother´s band that disappeared for a couple of years already.
The book is built through various angles and perspectives shared by the main protagonists of the story, which is always a brilliant idea when it comes to crime thrillers. Thus, one can have a broad overview of possibilities and intentions. However, I´ve felt that for such a short book, the pace is relatively slow and so it is the distance between the revelation of one possible element and the other. Of a higher interest for me was the revelation of the net of rivalities and envy between the members of her brother´s band for their human insights, particularly on dysfunctional relationships.
The expression ´lies at someone´s door´ means bearing responsibility, a task that not too many of us may be ready to assume. The ending is one of hope, in both a better future and it looks like Lucy, despite all the challenges, she was given a chance of her own and assumed the responsibility of her own life, and no one else´s.
A.A.Abbott is a passionate British crime and thriller authors, and Lies at Her Door is her ninth book.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the blog tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own.
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