Do Not Disturb: An addictive psychological thriller

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Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. She killed her husband, Derek in self-defense. Her husband is lying dead on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. Wrong makes her case with a deep investigation of the murder of a charming, manipulative, roguish man who also had blood on his hands. Karegeya grew up among Tutsi exiles in Uganda after his ancestors fled Rwanda to escape Belgian rule. Kagame was a more recent arrival when his family was driven out by violent anti-Tutsi purges in the run-up to Rwanda’s independence in 1962. Their mothers were friends and the boys attended the same school. Years later, they were drawn to Yoweri Museveni’s rebel army as it fought its way to power in Uganda in 1986.

As always Claire Douglas had me glued to this book, loved the red herrings along the way and even though I knew there was a big twist going to happen it still surprised and amazed me how easy she can turn a story around leaving me discombobulated!! The world could have ended and I would have still said ‘just let me finish my book in peace’ Although her description as “a British authority on Africa” is tad overdone, the reviewers’ breathless tone about Wrong’s book is understandable. She is an experienced journalist, for whom exploring different angles on a familiar theme will come naturally. I love the structure of the book as it’s broken up into two parts. The first half tells of the events leading up to that morning as we are introduced to main characters. Yet another fantastic extreme horror / slasher from Jon Athan! This is disturbing, gory and violent. It's super creepy with the clowns, and not one you'd read *late* at night. Which obviously I did, because it's me.Something Bad happened to Adrian when he and Kirsty and their two girls lived in London, so never having run a business before, they decide to buy an almost derelict property in Wales and, once refurbished, open it as a B&B. Why? Because Kirsty is Welsh and loves Wales. What better reason could there be. So this is Mistake Number One. Asking Kirsty's domineering and controlling mother for a loan is Mistake Number Two, thus allowing her to move in and be a not-so-silent partner. Mistake Number Three is letting Kirsty''s cousin Selena, a woman she hates and hasn't spoken to for seventeen years, to come and stay.

Quinn Alexander has killed her abusive husband-but knowing that nobody would believe her because he is so well regarded and well connected-she makes a run for it..Far from the charismatic, driven and progress leader he is perceived as by his international supporters” we are told, “Kagame emerges from Wrong’s account as a murderously authoritarian figure…she compares him to Stalin’s notorious secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, always able to ‘find the crime to fit the man’.”

The second part is the subsequent aftermath. As previous secrets are slowly told, I like how Douglas held of revealing the identity of the body! As Karegeya tells it, the breaking point came with the RPF’s killing of old Ugandan comrades as the two countries fought over their plunder of the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo. The spy chief’s dissent lands him in prison and exile in South Africa, where he and other disillusioned Rwandan officials pose a particular danger to Kagame. Karegeya quite literally knew where the bodies were buried. A few years later, he was among them. i love how she made every character unreliable, i couldn’t make up my mind on who to trust. unexpected plot twists everywhere. and a perfect satisfying ending.I won't spoil the book for those yet to read it. Suffice to say that the Becons of Wales are atmospheric and so is the village where the family settle. Old scores are to be settled and whilst some wounds heal others are opened up and will remain (possibly forever).