#BlogTour-‘The Boy At The Door’ by Alex Dahl

About The Book

Everyone has secrets. Even those who seem to be perfect…

On a rainy October evening, Cecilia Wilborg – loving wife, devoted mother, tennis club regular – is waiting for her kids to finish their swimming lesson. It’s been a long day. She can almost taste the crisp, cold glass of Chablis she’ll pour for herself once the girls are tucked up in bed.

But what Cecilia doesn’t know, is that this is the last time life will feel normal. Tonight she’ll be asked to drop a little boy home, a simple favour that will threaten to expose her deepest, darkest secret…

Thank you so much to Love Books Group Tours and Head Of Zeus for this copy of ‘The Boy At The Door’ which is available now in paperback.

This is a stunning debut and had me on edge from the very beginning.

A simple swimming lesson turns into a mother’s worst nightmare-Cecilia is taking her children home from the pool when an attendant asks her to also drop off a small boy who has apparently been left behind.

This is where it got complicated for me, I could see how she just assumed he was in one of her daughter’s classes at school but inside I was screaming safeguarding!! as she puts him in her car, drives past the house he tells her is his-which appears abandoned-and takes him home.

Having welcomed a cuckoo into her nest, albeit reluctantly, she is surprised how attached her husband becomes to Tobias and her carefully constructed life comes apart piece by piece after the arrival of the boy at the door.

An interior designer on a part time basis, Cecilia is used to getting what she wants, but her very job gives away huge clues to her character-she is always controlling her environment and literally papering over any cracks to leave a flawless surface.

But this carefully constructed image has a rotten underlayer that starts showing through all too quickly…a slow burner but one you want to stay with to the very end, ‘The Boy At The Door’ marks a major new Scandi Noir author to mark on your bookish radar!

About The Author

Half American, half Norwegian, Alex Dahl was born in Oslo. She graduated with a BA in Russian and German Linguistics with International studies and went on to complete an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, followed by an MSc in Business Management at Bath University. Alex has published short stories in the UK and the US as well as a novel, Before I Leave You, in Norway in 2013. Alexandra is a serious Francophile and currently lives between London and Sandefjord.

Sandefjord is the setting of Alex’s new novel, The Boy at the Door, a brilliant psychological thriller which has already attracted worldwide interest and book deals in UK, USA, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic and Sweden.

Alex Dahl

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