If you are a fan of Freida McFadden and have not read B. A. Paris, you need to do so as soon as possible. Paris is the European Queen of the Domestic Thriller, and her latest is the perfect title to kick off your journey with her.

The brief prologue of WHEN I KILL YOU shows Nell Masters being pursued by an unknown assailant in her own flat. Just before their confrontation, she tells her attacker, “Before you kill me, I need to know who you are.”

"Paris does an impressive job establishing a number of potential suspects. The result is quite surprising and extremely suspenseful. WHEN I KILL YOU is a twisty domestic thriller and a brilliant read."

It is no secret that Nell Masters and Elle Nugent are the same woman. In fact, we get to explore incidents in the past that caused Elle to change her name, start her life over, and suddenly be terrorized again living as Nell. Also interspersed throughout the novel are handwritten excerpts from a notebook by the individual who is obsessed with Nell. Each entry ends with the same chilling words: “When I kill you.”

Nell’s fresh start includes a new flat, a job at a charity organization, and her boyfriend, Alex, whose work takes him between England and France. She abandoned her life as Elle due to something she believed she witnessed that ended up changing the course of her existence for the worse.

One evening, while looking out the window of the flat that she shares with her boyfriend, Jaz, Elle sees a young lady in the street yelling about a stolen cell phone. A car then pulls up, and the driver offers her a ride. As the vehicle speeds away, Elle gets a good look at both of them. She is horrified when she catches a story on the news the following day showing a photo of the woman, Bryony Sanders. Her lifeless body was discovered overnight.

Elle goes to the police, but without anything firmly caught on video, they can’t do much other than to document what she claims she saw. She becomes obsessed with the case and believes she has identified the man in the car. His name is Brett Parker, and she finds out where he lives. She then begins to follow him, harassing him under phony guises to try to get him to confess. It doesn’t end well for either of them.

Nell now believes that Brett’s son, Damon, is taunting her with mysterious messages and gifts. She also begins to suspect that Alex may be hiding something as his two previous relationships ended in untimely deaths.

Paris does an impressive job establishing a number of potential suspects. The result is quite surprising and extremely suspenseful. WHEN I KILL YOU is a twisty domestic thriller and a brilliant read.