How can she even trust herself now?Īfter reading Paris’ first novel Behind Closed Doors I was very excited to hear that she was coming out with a second novel.

What the alarm code is, how to work the microwave, not remembering placing orders, get-together’s, birthdays and dinner dates.īut just as she realizes she doesn’t know who she can trust, she gets diagnosed from a doctor with what her mother had before she died, early onset dementia. Then the worst happens, Cass starts forgetting important things. With the killer on the loose, she starts receiving phone calls with somebody on the other line yet they never say a word. And she was her friend.īeing distraught, feeling like she helped kill her friend, Cass ends up becoming very paranoid. The next morning when Cass wakes up she finds out that the woman she passed last night is dead. Not being able to tell if the woman needed help seeing she never got out of her car nor flashed her signals to Cass, Cass went home. While on this road she sees a car pulled off to the side and her better instinct tells her to keep going, but somewhere deep down inside she knew the woman she just passed needed her help. On her way home she took a dark, twisty road that Matthew warned her not to take since it being nighttime and it’s severely storming. She is a school teacher and after a party for the end of the year, to celebrate holiday, she decided to leave early to be home with her husband since having a migraine. Whether she took her pills, what her house alarm code is and if the knife in the kitchen really had blood on it.Įntering the book we meet one of few main characters, Cass Anderson, wife to Matthew and best friend to Rachel.

Consumed by guilt, she’s also starting to forget things. Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she’s sure someone is watching her. Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead. If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods.

The breakdown by paris