The Therapist
When Alice and Leo buy a house in The Circle — a gated community of exclusive homes shielded from the outside world — it seems to be everything they have dreamed of. But not long after they move in, Alice learns a devastating secret: a woman was murdered in their house two years earlier, and the killer was never found. The woman was Nina, a therapist who lived and worked there before them.
Unable to let it go, Alice becomes quietly obsessed with piecing together what happened to Nina, drawn to a woman she never met and increasingly unsettled by the polished calm of her new neighbours. But nobody in The Circle wants to talk about the past, and the more Alice digs, the clearer it becomes that the community's careful perfection is built on things left unsaid.
B.A. Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors, returns with a claustrophobic psychological thriller about grief, secrecy, and the danger of wanting the truth more than anyone around you is willing to give it.
New resident of The Circle who becomes fixated on solving the murder of the woman who lived in her house before her.
Alice's partner, who moves with her into The Circle.
The therapist who was murdered in the house two years before Alice moved in.