This was a good domestic thriller! I liked the multiple POV's and timeline. It was entertaining enough and had no big surprises and unlikeable characters.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC

A maid curious about the mysterious wife upstairs...? Hmm, sounds eerily like a hit novel.

Something I loved - multiple POV's. I will die on the hill that multiple POV's are far superior. Also, multiple writing styles - newspaper postings as well interrogation excerpts.

Something I didn't enjoy - the length of the book that should have been about 100 pages less.

The MC's were strong and really moved the book along. I especially loved Jennica with her pet named Dog - who is a cat.

4/5
I really enjoyed this one. It kept me on my toes and wanting to read more. I read it in 2 days. Was the overall writing a little more surface level, yes, but it still kept me guessing until the very end even though it didn't have the super big twist at the end I was expecting. The multiple POV and mixed media made the chapters fly. The story felt well put together and it makes me excited to see what's next for this author.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of The Woman Inside by M.T> Evdardsson in exchange for my honest review and opinion. I loved the previous books by this author and was beyond excited to read/review this. This is one of those books that make you go OMG did I really just read this? It's got so many twists and turns that your head will be spinning! It's SOOOOOOOO good and be prepared for one heckuva ending!

I love when a book starts with a high suspense situation and then bounces to the past spends the rest of the story explaining how it got to the present. The suspense and secrets that followed kept me invested so it was a quick read. I enjoyed the multiple POV’s, and it was interesting how the characters ended up being connected. Karla’s was the one that I was invested in the most. She was dealing with the sick wife trying to decide whose “orders” to follow. I thought all the characters were well developed and I liked the friendship Karla made with Bills daughter. I did not see the ending coming and I liked how everything was explained and not rushed.

Thank you @Netgalley and @celadonbooks for the gifted copy.

I wanted to love this one - it was good and I would recommend to police procedural readers. I just didn’t connect with the characters and found them uninteresting.

Interesting synopsis ans suspenseful read, especially near the last few chapters.
The who dun it and how it all went down was surprising but the end kind of fell flat for

Oof, not a fan of this read. It was too long and drawn out. There was a lot of unnecessary filler info and I found myself bored. I didn’t like the characters. This just wasn’t for me

A very intriguing premise and an amazingly articulated execution! Would love to read more by M.T. Edvardsson. I enjoy books where each character has a secret and there are other elements that make the plot delivery very tense...this one offered that and so much more!

3.5 stars.

I am behind on writing this review. It did take me quite a bit of time to read this book due to how drawn out it is and needed to be in the mood to read a more in-depth book. We get POV from three characters and the excerpt of the interrogations. The story line is great, I did enjoy the different POVs. I just felt the build up to figure out everything was long, and the ending seemed rushed. The story line definitely made it worth finishing this book to see what really happened and how it would end, but it took me too long to read it as it was a slow and drawn out it some parts.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I found this story extremely listenable. I had both a digital copy and the audiobook. I started on audio and just couldn’t stop. I usually take a week to listen to a book, but I knocked this one out in less than two days, switching back and forth between formats. It’s told in first person from multiple narrators including Bill, Karla and Jennica interspersed with excerpts from police interrogations with various witnesses and suspects plus news articles. The audiobook had multiple narrators for the characters including Josh Dylan, Nathalie Buscombe and Sofia Engstrand. I thought they did a wonderful job with the characters.

The story revolves around the term “family tragedy” which is a somewhat controversial term used by the police and press in Sweden to describe a case where there is no external perpetrator outside the family. For example, a parent killing their children or a husband/wife killing their spouse followed by suicide. There was an interesting note in the audiobook (I didn’t see it in the final kindle version, somehow I lost my e-galley) from the author preceding the story pertaining to the case that inspired the book and I believe the Swedish version is actually titled Family Tragedy.

I really enjoyed this group of flawed characters. I was transfixed by each of their stories trying to work out how they connected to each other and the alleged murder/suicide. Bill kind of waffled between a loving dad and an idiot that I wanted to smack upside the head. I wanted to tell Karla to stay in school and live your life for yourself instead of letting her mother drag her down or her supposed friends guilt her into codependence too (What was up with that? I had a little difficulty with the Silja character. Why would any reasonable adult encourage a smart, intelligent young woman at college to come back to a tiny town to be sucked back into the drama of an addicted parent?) As for Jennica, I just wanted her to open her eyes and smell that the roses were rotten, and I loved that she had a cat named Dog.

Recommended to readers that enjoy domestic drama/thrillers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Celadon Books for a copy provided for an honest review.

This is my first read by this author M.T. Edvardsson. What a ride! This domestic thriller is narrated through multiple POV. The characters are flawed (which I like), but predictable. I enjoyed they way the author weaved the characters together. I also liked the interjection of the police interrogations between chapters. Definitely recommending! Thank you, Netgalley, for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review. 4 Stars

Bill is a down on his luck widower and raising his daughter Sally alone. He can't find work, so he rents a room to Karla so she can help with the finances.
Karla is the housekeeper for a wealthy couple, Steve a doctor and his bedridden wife Regina.

Karla befriends Regina and begins to become worried about her health. Is she truly ill, or is something more sinister happening?

This book just wasn't for me. It dragged in parts, and the ending wrapped really fast. I didn't care for the ending either. If you like slow burns, this book is for you. I like my thrillers to be fast paced.

I loved MT's A Nearly normal family so I was pleased to get a copy of their next novel.
It was a solid, intriguing mystery of a widower and his daughter, they girl who comes to live with them and the rich family who hires their lodger.
It may have been a bit long but it was another win for M.T.

M. T. Edvardsson sure knows how to write an intricately intertwined story that keeps you guessing until the last page. Like this author’s previous novel, there were a lot of characters to keep track of. I ended up listening to the audiobook of this one and so I had to pay close attention to keep all of the storylines straight. However, I thought the book was wonderfully written and captivating!

I enjoyed A Nearly Normal Family by MT Edvardsson so I was excited to read The Woman Inside and I was not disappointed. I enjoyed this one even more! I liked the way the story was told through multiple POVs , mixed in with police interrogations, and online articles with comments and all. It was a different approach at telling the story and unraveling the mystery and I loved the way it all blended so well together to reveal all the twists to solve the mystery of who killed the Rytters.

The Woman Inside is told through dual POVs as it works to uncover who murdered a wealthy couple.
Overall I enjoyed this, I found the characters likeable and was interested in all perspectives as secrets were being uncovered. I just didn’t feel a lot of tension as we got closer to the truth. I guessed whodunnit early on so maybe that contributed to it for me.
Thank you Celadon Books for the copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Crime Fiction, Nordic thriller told in multiple POV plus police interrogation transcripts set in Sweden makes for an interesting read full of plot twists.

I felt there were pieces that were unnecessary. They didn’t add to the suspense and honestly I didn’t feel any suspense during this book. I also didn’t feel this was a thriller but more a domestic drama. I enjoyed the mixed media with the police reports and interrogation recordings. Honestly, I was back and forth a ton on who killed who. And in the end I was 50% right. There were characters I felt empathy for, but some that I truly don’t know why they were in the story.

This book was character driven and I loved that. I enjoyed learning new tidbits of information about each one as the plot unfolded.
Many thanks to Celadon and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

The Woman Inside is a domestic murder thriller with constant twists! The writing is intense with complex characters. We follow a few main characters and I loved the alternating chapters between the characters as well as the alteration before/after the murders. I loved that the story had a mixture of narratives and police interviews. This book was addicting. I could not put it down at first but as the book went on I thought that some parts were more drawn out than needed to be. Overall, happy with this read!