{"id":54043,"date":"2025-01-28T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-last-days-of-kira-mullan-by-nicci-french-a-little-book-problem\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:20:17","slug":"the-last-days-of-kira-mullan-by-nicci-french-a-little-book-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=54043","title":{"rendered":"The Last Days of Kira Mullan by Nicci French \u2013 A Little Book Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"


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She\u00a0thinks\u00a0it was murder.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>
But if she can\u2019t trust herself, can anyone else?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new flat, a new area, a new start. Because while Nancy is fine\u00a0now, she wasn\u2019t fine before. But settling into the new flat and meeting the new neighbours isn\u2019t helped by Felix\u2019s hovering concern. She\u00a0is\u00a0all right. She is sticking to her breathing exercises and doctor-prescribed help.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

So, when their new neighbour Kira Mullan is found dead by suicide, Felix is understandably worried about Nancy\u2019s frame of mind. But Nancy saw Kira the day before she died and she didn\u2019t strike her as someone who was suicidal \u2013 she was upset and angry, yes, but was she upset and angry enough to take her own life?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy is the only one convinced that there\u2019s more to Kira\u2019s death than has been discovered. But all the police and the neighbours see is a vulnerable woman who isn\u2019t sure of what she saw, and might even be imagining things . . .\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Is\u00a0Nancy imagining things, or are there more questions that should be asked about the last days of Kira Mullan?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I jumped at the chance to join the blog tour for\u00a0The Last Days of Kira Mullan\u00a0<\/strong>by Nicci French today as I loved Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>last summer\u00a0<\/strong>and their new book features the same detective. My thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for inviting me on to the tour and to the publisher for providing me with a copy of the book for the purpose of review. I have reviewed the book honestly and impartially.<\/p>\n

What do you do when you are sure that a murder has been committed, but no one believes a word you say? This is the premise behind this book and, I have to say, it works absolutely perfectly. This book is stunning from start to finish, I could not put it down and finished it in record time. If you pick this book up, make sure you have plenty of time to read it because you\u2019ll find it almost impossible to put down once you start.<\/p>\n

Nancy North is the ultimate unreliable narrator. No one trusts her, she isn\u2019t even sure she can trust herself half the time, so there is no way that the reader knows what or who to believe. Why is she so obsessed with the death of the woman downstairs who she barely knew and why is she convinced she did not commit suicide when everyone else thinks it is an open and shut case? You will go backwards and forwards wondering whose accounts can be trusted.<\/p>\n

The authors have peopled this book with a cast of characters who brilliantly serve to complicate the plot even further. At first, they seem normal enough and supportive of Nancy, but over the course of the book, each of them have secrets and flaws that are revealed in a way that sows doubt as to their motives and roles in Kira Mullan\u2019s life. The water is stirred and muddied constantly so you will be questioning everyone\u2019s actions. This really ramps up the tension in the story and confuses the reader even more.<\/p>\n

Some of the scenes in this book are traumatic and enraging to read. The treatment of Nancy in the middle of the book is so stressful, I hope it isn\u2019t reflective of reality, and it serves to get the reader completely on her side, despite her problems. From this point on, I was willing someone to be on her side and look past what everyone else was saying about her and help her out. Enter Maud, quickly becoming one of my favourite characters in recent books. Maud is so calm and fair, even when she isn\u2019t treated fairly herself, and the reader knows that, if anyone can help Nancy, it will be Maud. Maud is my hero and I could read about her every day of the week.<\/p>\n

The Last Days of Kira Mullan\u00a0<\/strong>is an almost perfect thriller and definitely my favourite book of the year so far. I know it\u2019s early days, but it\u2019s going to be a hard one to beat. I was wrong in my suspicions as to how this was going to end, I hated and loved characters in equal numbers but was completely obsessed with this book whilst I was reading it. A triumph, can\u2019t wait for the next one.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together.<\/p>\n

Connect with Nicci French:<\/p>\n

Facebook: Nicci French<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: @FrenchNicci<\/a><\/p>\n

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