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    Audiobook10 hours

    What to Do When Someone Dies

    Written by Nicci French

    Narrated by Tania Rodrigues

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    What to Do When Someone Dies is another ingenious thriller from the best-loved, bestselling author, Nicci French

    Ellie Faulkner's world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash - and he wasn't alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone - a woman Ellie's never heard of.

    But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her. Maybe it's the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was - and prove Greg wasn't having an affair.

    And soon she is chillingly certain their deaths were no accident. Are Ellie's accusations of murder her way of avoiding the truth about her marriage? Or does an even more sinister discovery await her?
    "Crisply written, intelligently plotted and has plenty to say about the necessary selfishness of grief." --The Guardian
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateAug 1, 2009
    ISBN9781407447575
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    What to Do When Someone Dies
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    Nicci French

    Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in London and Suffolk.

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    • 3/5
      I'm sadly stretching to give this a solid 3 star. Here's what I liked: A spouse found dead with the opposite sex truly happens. So good plot. This duo wrote the Frieda Klein series that I will FOREVER LOVE. The group of friends the wife has as her support system reminded me of Frieda Klein. Not so much: I was maybe 17 Chapters in before things felt tense or drama started to build. Some actions felt really far out there. And here's an odd one for me, the slap. Really? Wasn't that out of left field and was the response slap worthy? Random.I stayed with the story not so much for the ending as much as for this author duo. I didn't have all the feels for this one.
    • 3/5
      This started out with much promise. For the first half it's on solid NF territory, where a relatively normal fear (losing one's spouse) escalates into something much more sinister. The question is, what would you do if your spouse were to be killed in an accident, alongside someone you've never heard of, and it starts to become apparent that you've been living a lie without realising it? So far, so very NF. But the problem is that the things the heroine does do are just too far-fetched. While it might be that someone in the throes of grief might well do these things, it is too much of a stretch to believe that those around her would be complicit.

    • 4/5
      This is the first Nicci French book I have read for a long time. It grabbed me straight away and I liked the main character very much. I found the story to be quite believable - in an odd sort of way. All the characters felt real to me, they had strong personalities and were convincing.The story was very well done too, with all the twists and turns.
    • 5/5
      This book is sort of back to front. The main character loses her husband in a car crash and the story is what follows. Usually if a book has this type of thing in it, it is about the recovery of the character, but not in this one. Ellie is looking for answers to her husbands death, the way she finds them is an enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      The book of the recent television adaptation 'Without You', which looked interesting but too stylised (although I did keep imagining Marc Warren as Greg while reading!) The story itself, by husband and wife team Nicci French, is a strange mishmash of a realistic study of grief, The Turn of the Screw style psychological narrative, and an average murder mystery. And in that order, I found myself touched by the tragedy of Greg's death, convinced and repelled in equal parts by Ellie's reaction to her sudden loss, and gripped by the occasionally far-fetched twists of her unofficial (and slightly bonkers) search for the 'truth'. Ellie Falkner's life is turned upside down one morning when two policewomen come to her house and announce that her husband Greg Manning has been killed in a fiery car crash. The shock and bereavement would be enough for anyone to deal with, but there is an added complication - Greg wasn't alone. A mysterious female passenger also perished with Ellie's husband, and not knowing who the 'other woman' was instantly pitches Ellie into doubt and suspicion. Was Greg cheating on Ellie? Was his death an accident? Who was 'Milena Livingstone'?The first part of the story, describing Ellie's thoughts and feelings after she learns about her husband's death, is very realistic and powerfully told. Ellie and Greg are a very middle class, bohemian pair - she still goes by her maiden name and restores old furniture for a living, he was a health-conscious accountant - but her grief is universal. The ordinariness of her confusion and loneliness is strangely sympathetic - how every action after his death somehow makes him 'deader', or more of a memory and less of a person, and the basic human need for company and comfort Ellie feels when she is alone at night. Her fixation on the woman in Greg's car, and the tangled web of lies Ellie creates, is less understandable, and the sudden descent into a full-on murder investigation is definitely jarring - yet I never lost interest in the story or characters, even if my faith in Ellie's sanity wavered more than once! Well-paced, despite the number of times Elllie wanders out into a torrential downpour, and well-plotted throughout.
    • 4/5
      What to do indeed. At home making dinner, Ellie is unprepared for the police at the door, or the news that her husband has died in a car accident. She is even more unprepared to learn that he wasn’t alone, there was a woman, also dead, with him in the car.Everyone assumes he had been having an affair. Everyone but Ellie that is. She sets out to find the truth, going to extraordinary lengths. Her intensity causes her friends to doubt her sanity and eventually the police label her as suspect number one in this bizarre case.The husband and wife team of Nicci French are known for their edge-of-the-seat thrillers and have long been favourites of mine. While What To Do When Someone Dies may not be their best book, I was still glued to the pages, wanting to know what was going to happen next. Grief is a powerful emotion, and I was at times feeling deep sympathy for Ellie while at others quite creeped out by her strange actions.I had a slight difficulty with the believability of this book. There were a couple of small plot holes that ate away at me and, at times the story drifted into the implausible. But overall What To Do When Someone Dies is a well written, taunt, easy to read book with some emotional moments that I enjoyed.
    • 4/5
      As always, Nicci French delivers an entertaining human drama. Ellie Falkner answers the doorbell one evening and is advised by the police that her husband has been killed in a car accident and that his passenger, a woman unknown to Ellie, is also dead. To the consternation of her friends and family and the police, Ellie cannot accept that her husband was having an affair and searches desperately for the real reason the woman was in her husband's car. What she learns leads her to challenge all the facts surrounding her husband's death. But someone is watching and Ellie is in danger ....