The red room door Nicci French

6. Title explanation:

Kit Quinn is the main person in the story. She tells two daughters of a friend of her a bedtime story about a red room. The father of them heard the story, and asks where she got it from. Kit tells him that it was a dream she had in hospital. In her dream the red room is a room within all your fears.
*** page 16; ‘he said it ... your red room.’
I think the red room is a good title. In the begin of the book Kit dreams about the red room, inside that room is everything she was afraid of. Some days later she is asked by the police to help them by a murder case, that seems to be very simply. But then this inquiry is like a red room, there are all thing in where is afraid of. For example the man who wounded her a half year ago, is the suspect murderer. I think ‘the red room’ is a good name for the book, and a good synonym for ‘things you are afraid of’ too.

7. The part of the book I find most interesting is chapter 44 and 45. In chapter 44 Kit explains who she finds out the murderers. And 45 is the part where she visit them. This is the climax of the story, I think the most exciting part of it. The way Nicci French describe it, makes that it seems you are part of the story, that you are in it.
*** page 304 until 319; ‘there was more ... a horrible mistake.’

8. I don’t know which part of the story is least interesting. Sometimes the story becomes a bit longwinded because of the detailed way of describe. But that aren’t specific parts. Sometimes I thought this, but when I read further, it becomes more interesting again. The book is a variation between two stories, about her private life and her work. This makes that the story isn’t boring. Every part is useful to know.

9. In the begin of the story Kit is a young, naive doctor, who doesn’t have seen much of crime scene. She thinks Micheal Doll isn’t a bad person, so he isn’t dangerous. Then Micheal attacked her and gives her a scar on her face for the rest of her life. After half a year the book started again, and Kit is asked for a murder inquiry where Micheal is the suspect of. In this case she act more careful, she is on her guard. ***page 4 until 7; This is the first time she met Michael Doll, so she is very naive and doesn’t see that Michael is a dangerous person. But on page 312 until 319 Kit visit another dangerous person, Gabriel Teale, the real murderer of Lianne and Philippa. This time she knows what she is going to do. It is very dangerous, but this time she knows that.

10. I would like to be Kit, she is a very nice person in the book. She didn’t find someone guilty for what he’s looking for. Everyone thinks that Micheal Doll is the murderer, but Kit isn’t unable to see further that her nose. She want to find other suspects. Kit is clever and she is always kind to people who deserve it..

11. I don’t want to be Gabriel Teale, because it is a disgusting kind of person. It seems he is a nice person with work who helps people to have a better life. But he doesn’t give a damn about peoples feelings, and he murdered very easily. He don’t want to have troubles. So when Lianne dies, he want to show a sick person have killed her. He knows that nobody thinks he is guilty. In the book he kills three persons, and everytime he makes that other people were blamed for his deeds. So Gabriel is a neaky person I don’t like to be.
*** page 320 until 328; ‘The visitors’room ... I’ve always needed’; this is the passage where Kit visit Brynony in the prison in London. Brynony tells who everything is lapse. This makes clear Gabriel is a sneaky sick man.

12. I’m pleased with the end of the book because it’s not an open-end. After the climax (the solution) the book goes further. It describe what happened to Gabriel and Brynony Teale, what Julie is going to do and the connection between Lianne and Philippa. I find this nice, there weren’t questions where not comply with.

13. The story takes place in London. It isn’t important to know this because the story could be set anywhere. But it is clever the story sets in a big city, not in a small village where everybody knows each other.
***page 34; ‘the size of London stretching around me’

14. The story is set nowadays, you know this because everything goes on the same way as in this time. For example they have the same technological stuff, like computers, mobile telephones, cd’s, tv’s and cars.
***page 122; ‘I was tired...footprints behind me.’

15. This story is a chronological one, so there aren’t any flashbacks in it. But it has a big interval in the beginning of the book, after that Kit has been wounded by Michael Doll. Then the book skips half a year, and started again when Kit starts to work after she get the wound. The time that passed is that time, plus the two months that she is working on the murder case.
*** page 7 and 9; ‘I was the accident ... And I said’; this are the parts before and after the ‘accident’ of Kit.

16. We get the story from a person who follows Kit. It is like Kit tells the story by herself, but now it is written in a she-form. So a narrator tells the story, but let us know what her feelings and thoughts are.

17. 294: ‘It was more ...she was praying’

18. The book is a thriller and a detective story.

19. I think the message of the book is that you can never trust somebody when you don’t know him well. The appearance of anybody don’t say who he really is. The theme of the book is murder inquiries / police work. Kit must help to solve a murder case with the police.
*** page 48; ‘Back to the ... of my chair’

20. Yes, I would recommend this book to others. It is not a very difficult book, and it is very exciting. The tension is great and Kit is an interesting person