For someone who is not an actual person, Nicci French is a writer at the top of her game. The author of 21 books starting with The Memory Game, Nicci French pioneered the contemporary psychological thriller and has continued to create unputdownable domestic noir, with October’s twisty, turny, thrilling new release, The Lying Room, defying its reader to stop turning pages. And the unique twist in Nicci French’s own story is that she is a pseudonym for a writing partnership between two authors, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who are also husband and wife.
They’re such a warm, inviting couple, welcoming WM into their house and providing cake, that you wonder how they can create books that are (in a good way!) so compulsively horrible. Books that look at what might happen if a single incident threatened a carefully constructed existence, not just with crumbling, but irrevocably falling apart.