This book was a page turner. It kept me wanting to keep reading until I could find out what happened. A couple is murdered, and until the end, everyone is the suspect. It was hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys and the writing style was very enjoyable. Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange, my honest review.

The Woman Inside by M.T. Edvardsson was a thriller, mystery, or that was what I thought it was going to be. I love a good thriller mystery and was very curious about this one. Steven and Regina Rytter a very wealthy couple that live in a beautiful home. Steven is a doctor with a resume a mile long, his wife Regina comes from a very well to do family and highly respected family. All is fine until Regina comes down with a crazy illness that has her locked up in her bedroom and she is hardly able to function.. Is her dashing doctor husband behind this mystery illness, or is he the dutiful loving husband..
Then there is Bill Olsson a loving father to Sally who has just lost the love of his life Miranda.. Bill struggles to keep a roof over Sally's head and food on their table. Bill is running out of options as the bill collectors are banging on his door. Enter Karla who ends up renting a room in Bill's apartment as she studies to get into the law. Then there is Jennica a young women who is lost in life. She is a student but doesn't want to be. She takes a job talking to people about their life problems and she is also on dating apps. How are these people all connected to the murder of Steven and Regina Rytter? I was curious in finding out so I dove into the book.

So we find out Karla is a house cleaner for the Rytter's. Karla came from a house of drug abuse. As a young child Karla took care of her mother who was always on the verge of an overdose. Karla did many things many not so legal things to save her mother until she had enough and left to make something of herself. So why does Regina Rytter state of being knock Karla to her core? Karla is connected to Bill because of her renting a room from him. She gets tangled in Bill's problems and the next thing you know Karla is on the verge of losing everything she has fought for because of Bill and his daughter Sally. Then we have Jennica the way-wood young woman who is having an affair with Steven. Not knowing that his wife is still alive because Steven has lied to her, Jennica is not happy at all. Could any of these characters commit murder? Or was Steven and Regina Rytter not as innocent as they made people believe?

Out of all the characters in this book I felt Karla was the most developed. You knew the background she came from,the mother she was conflicted with. How she want a better life for herself and yet getting tangled up with Bill sort of brought her back to her childhood. She couldn't get out of her own way. Bill's character annoyed me a little. He never fully grew, even having a daughter to care for didn't give him the big push he needed to help himself. He just tried to find and easy way out of things. i sometimes felt Sally was more of a grownup then him. He also tended to be whinny. Jennica has some personality. I wished there was more to her. I also felt the story dragged a bit. I did like the idea behind the story that is why i had to finish it. Overall I did enjoy it and I would recommend it to my fellow readers. I also would read more from M.T. Edvardsson.

Thank youNetGalley and Cleadon Books for the ARC. I would give this book 3.5 stars. Very interesting concept,with decent characters.

The Woman Inside by M. T. Edvardsson is the best kind of slow burn!

What a wonderful book. Great writing craft. The story is a slow burn and told in several different voices.
The characters are wonderfully flawed, the story is unpredictable.
The engrossing plot is dark and disturbing. And the authors writing has once again pulled me in so quickly I didn’t want it end.
M. T. Edvardsson has done it again in writing a marvelous book with such wonderful and creepy storytelling.

“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”

Thank You NetGalley and Celadon Books Publishing for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

Bill has recently lost his wife, and is having trouble making ends meet for him and his daughter Sally. He decides his only option is to take a lodger into their home. Karla is cleaning homes and working hard at school to someday be a judge. Things seem off at the house she cleans however. The wife is ill and rarely leaves her bed and her husband seems obsessive about them not talking. When the couple ends up dead, everyone is a suspect.

3.5 Stars. Ok. I have to start by again sharing my love for A Nearly Normal Family. I freaking LOVED that book. It was one of my top reads of the year in 2019. So needless to say, when I saw M.T. Edvardsson had a new book coming out, I knew I needed to get my hands on it asap. All of that makes this even harder to say. I enjoyed this book. I really did like the story, and if it wasn’t having to live up to A Nearly Normal Family, I wouldn’t feel so dissapointed. However, A Nearly Normal Family this book was not. It felt like something I had read before, and while that isn’t a bad thing, I just had higher expectations for it. I would still recommend this book, just set your expectations appropriately.

An interesting slow burn thriller. Five people's lives intersect over the years, two of them ended up dead but who killed them and why. well written, easy to read, I got involved right away in the different perspectives on what really happened. 4.5

It felt a little rote - a standard list of “this is the time to drop x hint, a couple chapters later reveal y secret, a predictable amount of time later pull z twist.” An okay story but uninteresting characters. And, some mystery reveals that felt missing at the end (and not in a deliberate way, more like they were just forgotten about). Regardless, solid overall.

The Woman Inside A Novelby M. T. Edvardsson was a good read. I love a Nordic setting, and this did not disappoint. The alternating veiwpoints were written well, and the characters were all pretty interesting, if not wholly likeable, which is fine with me. A fun read and kept me interested. Thanks to Netgalley an the publisher for an advance copy.

This book was sent to me electronically by Netgalley for review. Thanks to the publisher and the author. Written by a talented and gifted writer, this is a suspenseful story. The characters are realistic, and they would make great television actors. This fiction reads like nonfiction at times. This author captivated me from page one. This is a cannot put down novel. Enjoy

This book is awesome! It involves eight people (2 couples, a housecleaner, and an 8-year-old girl) who are inexplicably tied together in complicated and crazy-dark ways that none of them could have predicted! Karla is a housecleaner for Steven and his sick wife, Regina. Bill lost his wife, Miranda to cancer, and he's the single parent to Sally. That's all you need; their lives become intertwined in plots of extortion, blackmail, and illness that you couldn't have predicted in your wildest dreams! Another head-spinner that I loved!
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

The premise of the book was interesting. It was just a little slow and drawn out for me. It wasn’t really a thriller. I didn’t not like it, I just didn’t love it. Which I think is more about me than the author. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced free copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Compelled to finish but wasn't overly satisfied, I found the characters in The Woman Inside to be incredibly annoying. Didn't/couldn't root for any of them. Selfish, bad choices and mired in inertia, no thanks. The author does do a nice job of weaving seemingly disparate threads together, although I would've appreciated more insight into Gina/Regina. All of the sudden, she turns lethal? Goodness gracious, I hope I never meet these people!

P. S. Thanks to #netgalley for the ARC.

Good thriller. I had a bit of trouble keeping the 4 main characters straight in the beginning, but then the interactions were twisty and I was very happy with how it ended.

Synopsis (It's a fiction book, so it helps…from Netgalley, the provider of the book for me to review.)
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A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside.
Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their home: Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, who works as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Her clients are the Rytters, an incredibly wealthy couple who hide behind closed doors. The wife is ill and hasn’t left the house in months. The husband is controlling and obsessive. Is he just a worried husband, concerned for his wife’s health? Or is there something more sinister at play?
As Bill’s situation becomes direr, Karla is forced to make a difficult choice. And when the Rytters wind up dead, and Karla is pulled in for questioning, she’s made to defend some parts of her past she’d rather not revisit.
Every person in The Woman Inside is hiding something, but could any of them really have been driven to kill?
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The murders in the book reminded me a bit of those of Barry and Honey Sherman (at least the controlling and obsessive nature of the husband did) and it was, overall, an excellent novel. Great characters, A twisty plot and a satisfying ending means that I will recommend it far and wide to my patrons, family and friends.

There are so many things I want to say about this book. Edvardsson does an amazing job with getting into the readers head and making them think things that may or may not be true. I found myself pacing and tapping my leg while reading because I was so anxious to see what was going to happen next. 2 wealthy people found dead in a seemingly normal neighborhood, a widowed man accused of murder, a cleaner who may know more than she's letting on and a secret mistress...this book has all of the elements of a fantastic nail-biting thriller that will have you dropping it, gasping, and throwing it across the room. I know I did! You're not gonna want to miss this!

*Thank you to Celadon books, M.T. Edvardsson, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review*

The Woman Inside, the latest book from Swedish writer Edvardsson, is a interesting but dark novel about a double murder of a wealthy doctor and his sick wife. The story is told in several voices; that of Jennica, the mistress, Bill Olson, a single father of 8 year old Sally and that of Karla, a young roomer study for the exam to get into law school and rooming in Bill Olson's small apartment.

Karla takes on a job as a housekeeper at a wealthy couple’s estate, where Regina, the wife, is seemingly ill and never leaves her bedroom. Her husband Steven is a pediatrician having an affair with Jennica, an immature and aimless 20 something who loves to drink and party.. In order to save money, Karla moves out of the school dorms and finds a room to rent at Bill Olson's home. Bill just recently widowed, with a gambling addiction, is struggling to make ends meet, deeply in debt.

There are so many parts to this wonderful book; a stolen ring, drug addiction, gambling addiction, philandering and eventually murder. I can't do it justice in a review. Such an amazing book and a quick read!

I loved this thriller! Great premise, twists and turns throughout- all the ingredients for a thriller that is bound to keep you up well into the night!

Heart pounding thriller that left me on the edge of my seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Definitely one of the best books this year.

I had no idea this book was Nordic before I started it! I was very happily surprised. I loved the differing POV's and the cohesiveness of the timeline. I could not figure out what happened. Bill's story was super depressing, which, obviously it was meant to be, but I found myself almost wanting to skip those chapters. Overall I really loved this one