When Caroline and her husband Francis receive an offer to house swap--from their city flat to a townhouse in London they jump at they chance for a week away a break from there normal life and a chance to sort out the tensions that have pushed their marriage to the brink. they leave there son with Caroline's mom and head of to london

as they settle in and get use to the house they are staying in soon old wounds start to rise again his unhealthy behaviors his addiction to pills, her indiscretions including her affair with a work colleague its the very thing they are escaping from trying to fix they want to use this time alone to get back on track but soon as there new their neighbor, an intense young woman, is showing a little too much interest in their in lives and keeps showing up at there door and asking Caroline for coffee is she just a lonely women looking for some company or is there more to it.

soon the house starts to become familiar to Caroline the flowers in the bathroom the aftershave of her ex lover the internet password is the name of a hotel her and her lover went to, these things can't just be a coincidence so she thinks maybe its him it's Carl but why would her ex lover if he wanted to get close to her again why would he house swap why not just call her ask her for a coffee? things don't add up and soon more shocks are to come some shes being forced to face! told in the past and present in the narratives of Caroline and Francis we get to see start of her affair with Carl and to then end of there fling and Francis to why he is the way he is it leads them to the breaking point that leads them to do the house swap..

when i started this book i had high expectations i thought it was going to be this edge of your seat thriller with the name of the book "the house swap" i thought it would be very creepy so i was excited to start reading it i was looking forward to it but once i started it i quickly realized that it wasn't going to be the book i thought it was going to be that's not saying i didn't like it but i'm not saying i loved it i wasn't gripped by the story i thought all the sex with Caroline and Carl could have been a bit less and more use your imagination i thought is this a fifty shades of grey style book or a thriller also Caroline was hardly discrete in her affair if i'm honest the first half of the book i wasn't keen on but the second half i did like it and i was getting in to the story i thought the ending could have been a bit more edgy and gripping bit more action i wasn't sure to give this book 3 or 4 stars so ill give it a 3.5 thank you to the Publishers and Netgalley for my copy

An excellent psychological thriller with twists that I wasn't expecting which I love in a book. Recommended read.

A psychological thriller is not my usual read, they make my mind race which I don’t like when I’m reading to relax. But I enjoyed this. Now I didn’t like the characters but I don’t think I’m supposed to! I did like the alternating time frames and I did like that I didn’t guess the whodunnit element

I very much enjoyed this! The story had an easy flow that was easily to follow. Even with times and characters going back and fourth I could keep track of what was going on. Had a few twist that were surprising. I would read this author again!

I always love a good domestic noir thriller and I am always on the look out for new titles in this genre.

This book is amazing! I can highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a dark thriller with a lot of tension!