A Slow Fire Burning: The addictive new Sunday Times No.1 bestseller from the author of The Girl on the Train

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Pacey, each short chapter flips between the points of view of three central characters — Laura, Miriam and Carla — with others seen through the eyes of Theo (Carla’s husband) and Irene (a meddling elderly neighbour). Miriam is forever second-guessing the judgment of strangers who she knows see her as a lonely busybody, while Laura is chaotic and brittle-sounding, convinced that none of the calamities that befall her are ever her fault.

Ben fell from a balcony after the door leading to the balcony was left open, and Theo, Angela, and Carla have all assumed this was Angela’s fault, especially as Angela has a history of excessive drinking. If you have a success on that kind of scale, I think it is natural to feel that it is in some sense undeserved, or that one has been disproportionately rewarded for one’s efforts! Was he just a really disturbed person who fantasized about his aunt, or did they really have a romantic relationship? There’s Miriam from the neighbouring boat who “likes to keep an eye on things”; Laura, a hot-tempered young woman who slept with the victim shortly before his death; Carla, the dead man’s aunt, who is already mourning the death of her sister, Angela; and Irene, Angela’s elderly neighbour who is prone to confusion, but not so much that she doesn’t clock the goings-on next door. out of 12 masterclass Four Star read, where simmering pain, injustice and most of all revenge, is a slow fire burning.

Miriam has never been able to get anyone to believe her claims and has always hated Theo for what he did to her. A Slow Fire Burning (2021) is a contemporary murder mystery novel written by British novelist Paula Hawkins. I didn't plan on reading another Paula Hawkins, but Rosamund Pike narrates and I thought just maybe. Hawkins liked this area because both wealthy and poor are living amongst each other in an unusual setting. Intricately interwoven plots and subplots, propulsive twists and a neat finale, while it’s no The Girl On The Train, A Slow Fire Burning is a deliciously easy psycho drama to hungrily tear through.

Well, it’s a complicated tale and readers will need to pay close attention if they’re to have a chance of successfully resolving this one. When Theo went to talk to Angela about Daniel, she showed him a sketch Daniel had done of Carla, naked. The police are quite bamboozled and have to finally rely on an unexpected player to catch the killer. But that is the nature of this sort of work, criticism and praise are subjective, earnings are not neatly related to hours worked – I had plenty of experience of being completely ignored before I found success. Like that earlier novel, A Slow Fire Burning incorporates multiple points of view, potentially unreliable narrators, and the perspectives of marginalized characters.

With similar page-turning cliff-hangers, this utterly compulsive read will make you question which one of Hawkins's works you like better. It is slow and it is a little compelling to read because when you start one of the narrators’ chapter, you ask yourself who was this character and you get to turn back for reading his/ her story one more time to refresh your memory! It was a book that exposed the way the sympathies of the reader might be manipulated, laying bare how quickly we jump to conclusions about guilt and innocence, power and responsibility. Carla had a tense and difficult relationship with both her sister and nephew because 15 years earlier, Carla and Theo’s young son, Ben, died after being left with Angela for the weekend.