There are lots of perspectives in this book, but it all comes together well! I wasn't sure who to trust!

*many thanks to Celadon for the gifted early copy for review considerations. All opinions expressed are my own.

When Bill Olsson receives a valuable family heirloom from his new roommate Karla, he feels financial relief. After all, it's not easy being a newly widowed and raising a daughter alone. Yet when Karla's housecleaning clients are found dead in their mansion, who is to blame?

I did enjoy The Woman Inside because of the drama with the three main characters, the fascinating police interviews, and the unpredictability of the story. However, at certain times the story was slow.

I was disappointed by the lack of unique differences in the characters' dialogue. Although, the author did provide backgrounds on each of the three characters. However, with a dialogue-driven story, I would have expected more distinguishable voices.

Please keep in mind that some sensitive topics come up in this story. Some content warnings include; drug abuse, gambling addiction, infidelity, murder, etc.

I especially appreciated the brief chapters, multiple points of view, and the criminal investigation interviews scattered about.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced readers copy of The Woman Inside. I really enjoyed A Nearly Normal Family and this was a highly anticipated read of 2023! Unfortunately this did not quite live up to my expectations compared to A Nearly Normal Family, but it was still good. I do really love a book with multiple POVs. I enjoyed Karla and Sally as characters. It would’ve added to the story to maybe have a POV from the Rytters? This book read like many other thrillers I’ve read with maids and a wife upstairs…so honestly I was kind of put off from the beginning seeing that it’s not different from my other recent thrillers. (This could really just be a me thing since I obviously need to broaden my thriller horizons and not read the same story over and over with different titles) This was a quick read where the different POVs and interrogations led to me continuing on with the story. Plot hole though: did Miranda actually cheat or not? Wish we could’ve cleared that up and then had some resolve between Jennica and Bill. Overall, I wanted more. This is still a fine book that I can see many people enjoying. Thank you again NetGalley for the ARC of The Woman Inside!

A wealthy couple is found dead in their home. Is the murderer their house cleaner, the guy the house cleaner is renting a room from, or the dead husband’s mistress?

It was a fun read. I was engaged through most of it. However, I feel like the characters were one dimensional. There were definitely plenty of characters to hate. I also didn’t like the ending. There were no twists or aha moments.

A few highlights from The Woman Inside: a philandering husband, a housekeeper who knows something, a sprinkling of police interviews, and not to mention the murder of a wealthy couple.
This book was quite enjoyable once I got all the characters straight. Every chapter is from a different point-of-view, which I love in a book. Short, fast-paced chapters make this slow-burn story even better!
I recommend this to all Nordic reads fans! While I did not read M.T. Edvardsson's first book, the style of the writing here, makes me want to check it out.

I read “The Woman Inside” by M.T. Edvarsson in nearly one sitting. Set in a suburb of Sweden, it has multiple narrators and each are suspects in the murders of Dr. and Mrs. Rytter. Through the point of views of Karla, Bill, and Jennica the mystery begins to unravel. I enjoyed the story though wished it was a little shorter. The chapters were short but some were a bit repetitive. Overall, a good psychological thriller.

I really loved this book! The plot was very engaging and I couldn't put it down!

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc in exchange for an honest review!

The Woman Inside by M.T. Edvardsson ⭐️⭐️💫 published by @celadonbooks

This one was just meh for me. It was told from three different POVs, and I couldn’t ever connect with any of them. I did enjoy that each character was morally gray and none of them were reliable. The book itself moved along, and I kept reading to find out what happened, but I was let down by the reveal. I’m not sure what I would’ve liked, but the ending left me scratching my head. I also found the title to be a bit misleading as I didn’t think it was about the woman inside.

The cleaner. The mistress. The desperate man. When a couple is found dead in the wealthy part of town, these three are potential suspects, but did any of them really have the motive to kill? “The Woman Inside” by M. T. Edvardsson dives deep into the heart of this mystery to uncover the truth.

For starters, I really enjoyed most of the characters in this book. They have these diverse stories that really add something to the plot and give them each a believability in their part of the story. I especially liked Karla. She wants to be good and have a life so different from her childhood, but she’s still learning and growing into who she wants to be.

In the end, this book was a solid 4 star read for me. It maintained pretty good pacing throughout the book and it had little interview clips from newspapers and the police that kept things interesting.

Thanks to Celadon Books and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for my honest review! This book is available now!

I could not put this one down! I read it in one sitting and was falling asleep at the end because of how late I stayed up but I HAD TO FINISH IT! I wasn’t expecting the ending at all and I liked how the story came together. The interviews and news articles between chapters were a great break and a great way to helped tell the story! Highly recommend!!

The Woman Inside is about all the secrets that we hide. Some secrets are difficult to hide because we are intertwined with them, and when they are revealed, it's difficult to hide anymore.

Bill, Karla, Jennica, and the Rytters are intertwined with each other. Who is a murderer and what are all these people hiding? The novel is a thriller and is interesting until the last page. It's a slow burn thriller and has a relatively slower pace. Each of these characters has a backstory that has impacted their lives and compelling them to behave a certain way. Trauma galore in this novel.

However, I was not a fan of either character. Karla was the only character that I sort of liked. It probably could be due to the translation, but I could not feel any emotions or feelings coming through in this novel. It was one dimensional and just matter of fact. Overall, though, I liked the novel.

Thank you, Celadon Books, for the book.

CW: Addiction, Infidelity

Many thanks to NetGalley, Celadon Books and Macmillan Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of the new thriller by M. T. Edvardsson and wonderfully narrated by Josh Dylan; Nathalie Buscombe; and Sofia Engstrand - 4 stars!

Bill, recently widowed and single parent to Sally, is desperate for money so takes in a boarder, Karla, to help with expenses. Karla is an aspiring law student and works as a housekeeper for a wealthy couple. the Rytters. The husband, who appears very controlling, has given Karla strict orders about not disturbing his ill wife, who seems intent on engaging Karla, leaving Karla to question if she is really ill. Jennica lives along with her cat, Dog, and works on a phone advice line. She meets a new man on Tinder but is he what he professes to be? When the Rytters are both found dead, all these characters are questioned about their activities.

I loved the way this story spooled out - interwoven with the events leading up to the crime from their different POV are police interrogation tapes with all the suspects, so you get lots of different sources of information. It's a bit of a slow burn as we learn how interwoven these characters are and learn all the secrets they are keeping. And that ending - you won't see it coming!

Having loved M. T. Edvardsson’s first novel, A Nearly Normal Family, I was excited to read The Woman Inside. Loved the cover,and the opening chapters, the discovery of the bodies of Steven and his wife, Regina, and the introduction to several characters. Interspersed between the chapters by Karla, Bill, and Jennica were chapters of police interviews. Chapters are short (a bonus for me) which adds to the suspense until it doesn’t. I found the middle of the book to be repetitive in several spots which made it difficult for me to stay focused. I did like how it all came together toward the end. I would have liked to have had an epilogue set several years later for the reader to discover what happened to each of the main characters. My thanks to BookishFirst, NetGalley, and Celadon Books for an ARC of this book. The opinions in this review are my own.

Thank you to @celadonbooks for sending me a copy of this one. You’ll find this one out on shelves now.

I really enjoyed this domestic thriller. The way the story unfolded with different characters in different chapters and police interviews was great. It kept me on my toes and was so clever! I definitely recommend this one.

Two people are dead in a house in the wealthy part of Lund. Three people are in their orbit, but did any of them have anything to do with it? Bill Olsson is a widower struggling to pay rent and care for the most important thing in his life--his daughter, Sally. In desperation, he takes in a lodger, Karla, who is surviving by cleaning houses while studying law and dreaming of being a judge and fighting for justice. She cleans the house of the Rytters--a controlling husband and a chronically ill, house-bound wife. But Bill's situation becomes more and more desperate, and the Rytters end up dead. Could Karla or Bill have had anything to do with it? Could it possibly have something to do with Bill's girlfriend (who doesn't know he's married)? Everyone is hiding something something, but is any secret big enough to kill for?

This Scandinavian thriller is dark and twisted and we know from the opening pages that it doesn't end well. I'm not a hard-core thriller babe, so it took me a while to sort through the atmospheric tension and the intentional confused trail of clues and foreshadowing. But when I got through it I was left feeling that this was a set of deeply flawed individuals in a world where human nature and inequality often combine disastrously.

Thank you to NetGalley and Celadon for my advance electronic copy.

this book had me wanting more & more! i was on the edge of my seat the entire time. it was multiple pov's while we also learned more about the case. it was nice to learn the background of everyone involved separately. i was wrong about what happened to regina & steven, but i did enjoy the twist about what actually happened. i also really loved sally. i'm not usually one for enjoying kids in books, but sally was so sweet! i would definitely recommend to those who like thrillers!

Second try for this author and I've realized maybe they're not for me. I tried but couldn't continue at 31%.

The Woman Inside by M.T. Edvardsson is a well written domestic thriller that I enjoyed.

I liked how the book started out quickly with two people who are dead but their identities are not revealed. That was quite clever.

The characters were well written but at 400 pages I think the story did carry on a bit more than necessary.

Overall, an enjoyable read !

Bill is a widower trying desperately to keep his head, and the head of his daughter Sally, above water. After the death of his wife things have not gone well for him; all his money went to the care of his sick wife, he lost his job, and now he is struggling to pay his bills. He decides to rent out a room to Karla, a law student with aspirations to be a judge. Karla also works as a house cleaner, and when a husband and wife she cleans for are found dead she and Bill are swept up into a murder investigation, putting their respective secrets in danger of being exposed. 

While I enjoyed The Woman Inside, it was such a slow build, making it hard to get into the story. Using multiple narrators and short chapters to tell the events,  suspense was created that, once things started really going, made it difficult to put the book down, but getting to that point took some time. Many of the characters seemed honest and relatable. I couldn’t help but love Bill, mistakes and all, because the intense love he has for his daughter was the catalyst for his actions.The ending was a little flat for me however. I had most of what happened figured out rather early on and it seemed a little abrupt. I honestly wanted more from the follow-up to A Nearly Normal Family.

Karla is a law student struggling to make ends meet. Bill is a devoted father to Sally. After Bill’s wife dies, the bills keep mounting. Jennica is just putzing through life until she falls for Steven, a wealthy older man. How do their lives connect?

Bill places an ad for a lodger to earn some money to pay the rent and Karla responds and finds herself enjoying Sally’s company. Karla is also working as a house cleaner for Steven whose wife is very ill. But something feels wrong in Steven’s home. When Karla makes the decision to steal from Steven’s wife to help Bill with his financial troubles, it sets off a series of events that spiral out of control, entangling Jennica unknowingly into the mess.

This suspense novel was ok. It was told by multiple POVs interspersed with police questioning of the characters. Although the characters annoyed me a bit with their terrible decisions, it was a quick read and decent for a suspense

Thank you to @netgalley and @celadonbooks for this advance readers copy.