![]() ![]() Matthew becomes impatient with her memory loss, sleepiness, and possible addiction to sleeping pills, and they begin to fight. The stranded driver does nothing to indicate that she needs help, so after a few moments, Cass continues on her way home. Nervous about stopping and getting out of the car, Cass feels duty-bound to offer the woman help, so she decides to pull over ahead of the car. On the road through the woods, Cass spots a stopped car, with a woman in the driver’s seat. ![]() ![]() On the phone, he makes her promise not to take a shortcut through the woods that border their secluded cottage at Nook’s Corner-but she does. She is anxious to get home to her husband, Matthew, who is in bed with a migraine. Paris’s second novel received mixed reviews, with Kirkus Reviews summarizing it as “paranoid and claustrophobic but tries too many tricks for its own good.” The novel opens at a party for the teachers at Cass’s school, celebrating the end of the school year. Complicating Cass’s struggle are apparent memory lapses which might be a sign of early-onset dementia. Paris, follows schoolteacher Cassandra “Cass” Anderson as she is drawn into the mystery surrounding the death of an acquaintance, Jane Walters. The Breakdown (2017), a psychological thriller by British author B.A. ![]()
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