The Sixth Window 2017 Paperback – Import, 27 April 2017

Good thriller must read. Story line in unique and nail biting through out. A must read for who love Thrillerd

Rachel Abbott does it again. Brilliant plot that keeps the reader hooked.Natalie moves in with Ed along with her daughter Scarlett after her husband's death caused due to an accident. Suddenly she senses that Ed is not what he looked to be. She moves out with her daughter to a temporary accommodation. Scarlett finds some very unusual incidents happening around her new apartment. She starts digging and what she unearths is shattering.Meanwhile DCI Tom Douglas and Team are investigating the death of a teenager by name Jennifer. It seems that the girl committed suicide, however DCI thinks it's more to it than it appears.As the plot unfolds, you will be in for a lot of surprising moments.Read this suspense thriller to know what Scarlett finds out and whether Jennifer really committed suicide.

A really exciting thriller

As always Rachel Abbott rocks!Natalie Gray and her daughter Scarlett are coping up with the sudden death of Bernie Gray - their husband and father respectively!Bernie is killed one morning when he heads out to walk his dog.Tom Douglas & Becky Robinson have multiple cases to solve - death of Bernie Gray and as well as Jennifer Bale. Someone is targeting weak/ broke girls from troubled families - take advantage and then threatening to leak their naked pics which were taken without their knowledge - this book was too good as always Rachel Abbott knows how to keep the reader engaged. Like that she writes small chapters instead of long lengthy ones!

Thrilled me n chilled me more than her other books..Read it in one go Pretty well written n interesting book.

I just couldn't stop reading this. The book twists and turns so many times it's hard to put down. I would've loved more closure at the end, but to say more would be too much!!!

Loved this book and all characters. I'm going to read it again because I feel liked I missed something. Concerning Ed.... All in all, though, book was great.

Excellent story, couldn't put it down. I loved every word. A brilliant twist at the end allowed us to draw our own conclusion although I think it's safe to say Natalie will make the right decision concerning Ed. The tension builds right from the first page to the last. 5 stars! - highly recommend.

Ich hatte schon einige Bücher von Rachel Abbott gelesen, und auch wirklich gern gelesen. Bei ihr merkt man sofort, daß sie weiß wie Frauen ticken. Dieses Buch konnte ich kaum aus der Hand legen. Spannend bis zur letzten Seite.

Nel romanzo c'è abbastanza suspance e tiene incollato il lettore. Mi piace il fatto che al termine del romanzo rimanga qualcosa di non ancora svelato o che comunque fa intravedere un altro tipo di risvolto.

I do love me a little bit of DCI Tom Douglas. Who in their right mind doesn’t? I will admit to having had a bit of a gap in my reading and to reading the books completely out of order, having missed the last couple as I struggle to make headway with my personal TBR, but then that is nothing unusual for me. But when the opportunity came up to get an advance copy of the The Sixth Window, the latest instalment in Rachel Abbott’s DCI Douglas series, well… I just couldn’t say no.This is a really interesting story, high on tension, with a very difficult subject as a backdrop to the main action. We follow the life of Natalie Grey, a widow and mother whose husband Bernie, a police officer, had been killed in a hit and run accident over a year ago. She is now living with his best friend Ed, but discovers something on his laptop that she cannot ignore, something which could put her and her daughter Scarlett in real danger. Natalie thinks she has found them a safe haven in an apartment in the city but when the estate manager is attacked, and Scarlett starts to hear strange noises from within their flat, just how safe are they really?As Scarlett begins to investigate the apartment block, Tom Douglas is looking into the suicide of a young girl. From a family which follows a strict religious code, her death makes little sense. Her mother will not accept that it is suicide, insisting that her daughter was murdered. The girl’s younger brother seems to be keeping a secret and her father is not as blinkered as his wife, but there is something truly troubling in the girls past and Tom needs to find out the truth before anyone else gets hurt.The two stories intersect in the most troubling of ways, with Tom’s team being tasked with investigating the hit and run which killed Natalie’s husband after the suspected killers alibi checks out. There was a time when I wondered how the stories could possibly pull together, and what any of it had to do with the hit and run. But this is the beauty of Rachel Abbott’s writing. She has an ability to pull together many seemingly unconnected threads and weave them into a rich literary tapestry which truly engages and enthralls the reader. The Sixth Window was no exception.I really liked the characters in this book. It goes without saying the Tom Douglas and Becky Robinson, both long standing characters from the series, are as well written and engaging as ever. We see a little of the playfulness of their relationship as Becky starts to interfere in Tom’s personal life, but this is part of the wonder of the pairing and it works perfectly. The supporting characters are well rounded and elicit a range of emotions from incredulity to suspicion to outright shock as I struggled to understand their motivations or their actions. Scarlett is a really strong character seemingly having gained some of her tenacity and resolve from her father. She is curious and brave beyond her years but that bravery leads her into danger creating one of the most heart stopping scenes of the whole story.As I said at the start, the backdrop to this story is a very difficult one. One of exploitation and abuse. But just who is responsible is not entirely clear and there is misdirection galore throughout the book as Abbott carefully moves the focus from one character to another. The finger of suspicion even falls to the police at one point, with corruption being cited at the very top of the tree. I can’t say I was entirely surprised by the conclusion, I had my suspicions early on which proved correct, but the story was so enthralling and the question marks over certain characters actions so bold that I was willing to be proven wrong. In spite of everything, of suspecting what would come to pass, I still didn’t see that ending coming. Not at all.I love these books and you can hardly ask for a stronger and more competent development of both character and plotting than you get from Rachel Abbott. I am even more determined now to play catch up (thank the world for Audible), and can’t wait for the next book in the series. I have loved Tom Douglas since I first read The Back Road, even though at that stage the police investigations were very much secondary to the main story. This book was different, with the Police playing a much greater part in the action and I think I loved it even more because of that. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this will be another storming great hit for Rachel Abbott.A full on, twisted, be careful who you trust 5 stars.