Book received from Netgalley and St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review, thank you.
I loved "Behind Closed Doors", and I was so excited to read this book as well. This story is more along the lines of a traditional mystery, which in my opinion is a nice change from the twisty-turny stories as of late, such as "Gone Girl".
"The Breakdown" begins with the main character, Cass, taking a shortcut down a dark road against the advice of her husband. She sees a car by the side of the road with a woman inside. After considering stopping to see if the woman is alright, Cass decides not to and goes home instead. Later on, the woman turns up dead.
Feeling guilty about her decision not to help the woman, Cass then starts to receive phone calls from someone who does not say a word, and she notices a man watching her outside her window. Cass also begins to have trouble remembering things that she does, and she is concerned that because her mother died of early-onset of Alzheimer's, that her memory problems are possibly more significant.
With everything that is going on, Cass just wants to know who killed the woman in the car? Things begin to fall into place, Cass begins to untangle the mystery that she is now apart of.
"The Breakdown" was an intense story that you want to read until the very end. It is enthralling and even though I thought I had it figured out, I still kept reading to see if I was right. I would definitely recommend this book!
4/5 stars
