Behind the Door
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Book Introduction
The unrivaled queen of female psychological thrillers
B.
A. Paris' shocking debut is back!
The perfect couple that everyone envies
A terrible world that no one knows about… …
There is a writer who is considered a genius in the thriller genre that delves into the psychology of women.
Exactly B.
A. Paris.
BA
Paris has created her own mystery genre, the "domestic psychological thriller," by sharply capturing psychological violence by those close to her and creating suspense.
B, who has established himself as a unique figure in the field of British and American thrillers by receiving passionate love from readers for every work he publishes.
A. Paris' legendary debut work, Behind Doors, has been republished.
"Behind the Door" is a well-made thriller novel that will captivate any reader who enjoys the psychological thriller genre, from its gripping plot that captivates readers from the very beginning, to its tension-inducing plot that intersects past and present, to its cleverly designed final twist.
"Behind the Doors" begins with the arrival of the handsome and capable "perfect man" Jack into the life of Grace, an ordinary woman in her thirties who works at a department store.
However, it is revealed that her marriage, which she thought was the best luck of her life, was actually a spider web woven by a psychopath to trap his prey.
Grace enters her psychopathic husband's amusement park, disarmed and drenched in sweet bliss...
Will she be able to escape her husband's clutches before her sister Millie, who has Down syndrome, arrives?
B.
A. Paris' shocking debut is back!
The perfect couple that everyone envies
A terrible world that no one knows about… …
There is a writer who is considered a genius in the thriller genre that delves into the psychology of women.
Exactly B.
A. Paris.
BA
Paris has created her own mystery genre, the "domestic psychological thriller," by sharply capturing psychological violence by those close to her and creating suspense.
B, who has established himself as a unique figure in the field of British and American thrillers by receiving passionate love from readers for every work he publishes.
A. Paris' legendary debut work, Behind Doors, has been republished.
"Behind the Door" is a well-made thriller novel that will captivate any reader who enjoys the psychological thriller genre, from its gripping plot that captivates readers from the very beginning, to its tension-inducing plot that intersects past and present, to its cleverly designed final twist.
"Behind the Doors" begins with the arrival of the handsome and capable "perfect man" Jack into the life of Grace, an ordinary woman in her thirties who works at a department store.
However, it is revealed that her marriage, which she thought was the best luck of her life, was actually a spider web woven by a psychopath to trap his prey.
Grace enters her psychopathic husband's amusement park, disarmed and drenched in sweet bliss...
Will she be able to escape her husband's clutches before her sister Millie, who has Down syndrome, arrives?
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Behind the Door
Acknowledgements
Translator's Note
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“A perfect gentleman got up from his seat, walked over to where Millie was dancing, bowed his head and extended his hand.
Millie was delighted and took his hand.
As the two began to waltz, everyone cheered and other couples came out and started dancing too.
It was a very special moment.
And of course, I fell in love at first sight with Jack, who created that moment.” --- p.15
I have to admit that the photos are amazingly beautiful.
And I look the best in that picture.
She has beautifully tanned skin, a slim body like when she was in her twenties, and wears bikinis of various designs.
In most of the photos, I'm standing in front of a fancy hotel, lying on a hotel's private beach, or sitting in a bar or restaurant with colorful cocktails and exotic food in front of me.
They're all smiling at the camera, looking like the typical comfortable, spoiled woman who's completely in love with her husband.
--- p.24~25
When I first started dating my boyfriend, I talked about Millie from the beginning.
But sometimes, because she liked her boyfriend so much, she would just tell him that she had a younger sister at boarding school and only tell him that her sister had Down syndrome a few weeks after they started dating.
When I spoke, some of them didn't know what to say, and left without being able to say anything more about Millie.
--- p.27
One night, when the boy was about thirteen, his mother escaped from the basement while his father was working on the weekend farm.
But the boy knew that if his mother escaped, he would never hear her terrifying screams again, so he hit her.
To prevent them from running away.
When my mother screamed, he hit me again.
And again.
The more my mother screamed, the harder he hit her and she couldn't stop.
Even after my mother collapsed.
Then, looking down at her crushed and bloodied face, I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful.
--- p.105
Jack looked at me as if he found it funny.
“Where are you running away to?
Or tell that person.
What about that guy? Tell him I'm imprisoning you, that I'm a monster and a murderer.
But before that, look around.
Look at this beautiful restaurant I brought you to.
And think about it.
The delicious food and great wine I'm eating now.
"Do you look like a prisoner to me? Do I look like a monster, a murderer?" --- p.134
“Do you know why my job is the best?”
“What is it?”
“You sit in front of these women who got screwed and think I beat them up,” Jack said, downing the rest of his glass.
“And being able to savor the photographs, the photographs of those beautiful scars, is truly one of the privileges of this profession.”
I was so angry that I unconsciously lifted my glass and splashed the remaining whiskey in Jack's face.
--- p.284
I cried and cried while drawing the first picture.
I would look at the bruised and bloodied faces day after day, meticulously observing the broken noses, bruised lips, and blackened eyes, and recreate them on canvas. I couldn't stand the rumbling in my stomach, so I would often vomit.
To stay sane, I had to find a way to deal with the trauma of drawing these horrific pictures.
I found a way to do this by naming the miserable women in the photographs, looking beyond the injuries inflicted on them, and imagining their true selves.
That way I could hold out much better.
It also helped that Jack had never lost a trial.
The women in the photos are all his former clients who escaped from abusive spouses.
That also made me feel more determined.
If they could do it, so can I.
Millie was delighted and took his hand.
As the two began to waltz, everyone cheered and other couples came out and started dancing too.
It was a very special moment.
And of course, I fell in love at first sight with Jack, who created that moment.” --- p.15
I have to admit that the photos are amazingly beautiful.
And I look the best in that picture.
She has beautifully tanned skin, a slim body like when she was in her twenties, and wears bikinis of various designs.
In most of the photos, I'm standing in front of a fancy hotel, lying on a hotel's private beach, or sitting in a bar or restaurant with colorful cocktails and exotic food in front of me.
They're all smiling at the camera, looking like the typical comfortable, spoiled woman who's completely in love with her husband.
--- p.24~25
When I first started dating my boyfriend, I talked about Millie from the beginning.
But sometimes, because she liked her boyfriend so much, she would just tell him that she had a younger sister at boarding school and only tell him that her sister had Down syndrome a few weeks after they started dating.
When I spoke, some of them didn't know what to say, and left without being able to say anything more about Millie.
--- p.27
One night, when the boy was about thirteen, his mother escaped from the basement while his father was working on the weekend farm.
But the boy knew that if his mother escaped, he would never hear her terrifying screams again, so he hit her.
To prevent them from running away.
When my mother screamed, he hit me again.
And again.
The more my mother screamed, the harder he hit her and she couldn't stop.
Even after my mother collapsed.
Then, looking down at her crushed and bloodied face, I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful.
--- p.105
Jack looked at me as if he found it funny.
“Where are you running away to?
Or tell that person.
What about that guy? Tell him I'm imprisoning you, that I'm a monster and a murderer.
But before that, look around.
Look at this beautiful restaurant I brought you to.
And think about it.
The delicious food and great wine I'm eating now.
"Do you look like a prisoner to me? Do I look like a monster, a murderer?" --- p.134
“Do you know why my job is the best?”
“What is it?”
“You sit in front of these women who got screwed and think I beat them up,” Jack said, downing the rest of his glass.
“And being able to savor the photographs, the photographs of those beautiful scars, is truly one of the privileges of this profession.”
I was so angry that I unconsciously lifted my glass and splashed the remaining whiskey in Jack's face.
--- p.284
I cried and cried while drawing the first picture.
I would look at the bruised and bloodied faces day after day, meticulously observing the broken noses, bruised lips, and blackened eyes, and recreate them on canvas. I couldn't stand the rumbling in my stomach, so I would often vomit.
To stay sane, I had to find a way to deal with the trauma of drawing these horrific pictures.
I found a way to do this by naming the miserable women in the photographs, looking beyond the injuries inflicted on them, and imagining their true selves.
That way I could hold out much better.
It also helped that Jack had never lost a trial.
The women in the photos are all his former clients who escaped from abusive spouses.
That also made me feel more determined.
If they could do it, so can I.
--- p.189
Publisher's Review
Over 1 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 40 languages!
B immediately upon publication.
A. The psychological thriller that sparked the Paris craze
★★★Praise for this book★★★
The anxiety and fear that Paris creates is addictive. - Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl
It completely overturns our understanding of psychological thrillers._The Guardian
A psychological thriller you simply can't put down_Library Journal
Solid, unwavering plausibility and horror from beginning to end_Washington Post
I've never read a better psychological thriller. - San Francisco Book Review
“The person you believe is a psychopath.”
A story about a secret horror that opens the moment the door closes.
Jack and Grace are the perfect couple that everyone envies.
Jack is a famous family law attorney with a 100% success rate, and he is a loving husband who cherishes his wife. Grace is not only a skilled housewife who cooks courses, gardens, and is also very meticulous about taking care of herself to the point of not having an ounce of fat.
But the reality of this couple is completely different from what it seems.
Because all of this is perfect acting.
The beautiful mansion they live in transforms into a world of horrifying violence the moment the door closes.
From their honeymoon, Jack acted like a lovey-dovey couple outside the hotel room, but inside the hotel room, he locked Grace out on the terrace.
At the mansion where the couple lives, Jack often throws dinner parties and invites the neighbors, but after they leave, he confines Grace to a room with only a bed or a creepy basement.
Grace is left in a desperate situation, unable to escape the fear that the person she loved and trusted most is a psychopath, and the fear of being locked in the place she believed to be the safest.
B.
A. Paris transforms everyday life into a world of terror by setting up situations where the most trusted beings and the safest spaces become unfamiliar.
The striking premise of a beloved, perfect wife being the victim of horrific violence, a beautiful mansion being a prison, and a lawyer who devotedly defends battered women and a man who meticulously cares for his family being a psychopath, coupled with the contrasting inside and outside, or inside and outside, only amplifies the despair and fear that Grace, an isolated being, feels.
BA
Through the delicate emotional lines of his characters, Paris shows how easily our ordinary daily lives can be overrun by evil beings, and how terrifying the horrors that lurk between what is seen and what is hidden can be.
A suffocating tension and a thrilling sense of liberation
A thriller to kill time while watching
Behind Doors is an excellent genre novel that fully satisfies readers' expectations of entertaining suspense.
The setting, where Grace's comfortable daily life is completely transformed into a world of horror, immediately captures the reader's attention.
As the story progresses, Grace's constant suffering infuriates the reader, and eventually leads them to blame her helplessness rather than the evil Jack.
But that's why the twist is all the more welcome.
When the anger builds up and the counterattack begins, you finally experience a sense of exhilaration as if all the stress of everyday life has disappeared.
The skill of Britain's best psychological thriller writer draws readers into the story as if they were actually in Grace's situation, and stimulates the anxiety that anyone could become Grace, leaving a chilling feeling of fear long after the book is closed.
In a delicate and meticulous way
The exhilaration of women standing up to violence!
Jack is a psychopath who enjoys inflicting fear on others.
Jack's words and actions toward Grace offer a glimpse into the subtle ways in which psychopaths inflict psychological violence on ordinary people.
Jack tells Grace, "I chose you as my target because you're someone I can instill fear in as many people as I want, someone I can keep hidden, someone no one will ever wonder about."
And Jack marries her, cutting off all ties with his friends, family, and coworkers.
Grace's inability to escape Jack's control isn't just due to the physical restraints of confinement.
Her feelings of isolation from her parents and friends, her distrust that her neighbors will believe her, and her responsibility to protect her beloved younger sister Millie all hinder her rebellion against the devil Jack.
In this way, the psychological restraints Jack imposes on Grace act as a double lock that prevents her from breaking free from her physical restraints.
In her marriage to a psychopath, her only remaining hope and reason for living is her younger sister, Millie, who has Down syndrome and whom she raised like a daughter.
To protect her beloved Millie, she becomes stronger.
He plans revenge more meticulously than a psychopath and desperately musters up the courage to be reborn as a being stronger than the devil.
Meanwhile, Millie, who is immature in the eyes of others, and Esther, who was the only one who looked at them with suspicion while everyone else envied the Angel couple, provide crucial help in Grace's escape.
Behind the Doors makes us think about how not only the Graces in the novel but also ordinary Graces in real life can overcome the violence of the powerful, intelligent, and cruel and regain their right to survive.
B immediately upon publication.
A. The psychological thriller that sparked the Paris craze
★★★Praise for this book★★★
The anxiety and fear that Paris creates is addictive. - Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl
It completely overturns our understanding of psychological thrillers._The Guardian
A psychological thriller you simply can't put down_Library Journal
Solid, unwavering plausibility and horror from beginning to end_Washington Post
I've never read a better psychological thriller. - San Francisco Book Review
“The person you believe is a psychopath.”
A story about a secret horror that opens the moment the door closes.
Jack and Grace are the perfect couple that everyone envies.
Jack is a famous family law attorney with a 100% success rate, and he is a loving husband who cherishes his wife. Grace is not only a skilled housewife who cooks courses, gardens, and is also very meticulous about taking care of herself to the point of not having an ounce of fat.
But the reality of this couple is completely different from what it seems.
Because all of this is perfect acting.
The beautiful mansion they live in transforms into a world of horrifying violence the moment the door closes.
From their honeymoon, Jack acted like a lovey-dovey couple outside the hotel room, but inside the hotel room, he locked Grace out on the terrace.
At the mansion where the couple lives, Jack often throws dinner parties and invites the neighbors, but after they leave, he confines Grace to a room with only a bed or a creepy basement.
Grace is left in a desperate situation, unable to escape the fear that the person she loved and trusted most is a psychopath, and the fear of being locked in the place she believed to be the safest.
B.
A. Paris transforms everyday life into a world of terror by setting up situations where the most trusted beings and the safest spaces become unfamiliar.
The striking premise of a beloved, perfect wife being the victim of horrific violence, a beautiful mansion being a prison, and a lawyer who devotedly defends battered women and a man who meticulously cares for his family being a psychopath, coupled with the contrasting inside and outside, or inside and outside, only amplifies the despair and fear that Grace, an isolated being, feels.
BA
Through the delicate emotional lines of his characters, Paris shows how easily our ordinary daily lives can be overrun by evil beings, and how terrifying the horrors that lurk between what is seen and what is hidden can be.
A suffocating tension and a thrilling sense of liberation
A thriller to kill time while watching
Behind Doors is an excellent genre novel that fully satisfies readers' expectations of entertaining suspense.
The setting, where Grace's comfortable daily life is completely transformed into a world of horror, immediately captures the reader's attention.
As the story progresses, Grace's constant suffering infuriates the reader, and eventually leads them to blame her helplessness rather than the evil Jack.
But that's why the twist is all the more welcome.
When the anger builds up and the counterattack begins, you finally experience a sense of exhilaration as if all the stress of everyday life has disappeared.
The skill of Britain's best psychological thriller writer draws readers into the story as if they were actually in Grace's situation, and stimulates the anxiety that anyone could become Grace, leaving a chilling feeling of fear long after the book is closed.
In a delicate and meticulous way
The exhilaration of women standing up to violence!
Jack is a psychopath who enjoys inflicting fear on others.
Jack's words and actions toward Grace offer a glimpse into the subtle ways in which psychopaths inflict psychological violence on ordinary people.
Jack tells Grace, "I chose you as my target because you're someone I can instill fear in as many people as I want, someone I can keep hidden, someone no one will ever wonder about."
And Jack marries her, cutting off all ties with his friends, family, and coworkers.
Grace's inability to escape Jack's control isn't just due to the physical restraints of confinement.
Her feelings of isolation from her parents and friends, her distrust that her neighbors will believe her, and her responsibility to protect her beloved younger sister Millie all hinder her rebellion against the devil Jack.
In this way, the psychological restraints Jack imposes on Grace act as a double lock that prevents her from breaking free from her physical restraints.
In her marriage to a psychopath, her only remaining hope and reason for living is her younger sister, Millie, who has Down syndrome and whom she raised like a daughter.
To protect her beloved Millie, she becomes stronger.
He plans revenge more meticulously than a psychopath and desperately musters up the courage to be reborn as a being stronger than the devil.
Meanwhile, Millie, who is immature in the eyes of others, and Esther, who was the only one who looked at them with suspicion while everyone else envied the Angel couple, provide crucial help in Grace's escape.
Behind the Doors makes us think about how not only the Graces in the novel but also ordinary Graces in real life can overcome the violence of the powerful, intelligent, and cruel and regain their right to survive.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: December 6, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 308 pages | 394g | 140*210*16mm
- ISBN13: 9791191043525
- ISBN10: 1191043525
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