Don’t Answer the Door: A Novel (Maud O’Connor Mysteries, 4)

When a devoted mother is murdered in the village of Brookstead, police pin the crime on her jealous husband. But whispers of three other women’s deaths prompt the force to summon Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor from London. In the fourth Maud O’Connor Mystery, Nicci French delivers a tense police procedural where female sleuthing meets psychological suspense.

Maud is expected to rubber-stamp the existing verdict, but she has only one week to investigate before she’s ordered home. As she digs into Amy Barton’s secret affair and the hushed-up tragedies of the town, a pattern of buried betrayals emerges. Don’t Answer the Door blends crime fiction and women’s contemporary fiction, tightening the net around a quiet community that won’t let its secrets go.