Break-In

Name: Break-In
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Katherine Faulkner
ISBN: 9781797185859

Author: Katherine Faulkner

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio

Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 08/26/2025

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns, from the author of the “deliciously twisted thriller” (People) The Other Mothers.

Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a playdate with friends at her upscale London home when a disturbed man breaks in. With her child in the next room, Alice panics and kills him—an act later ruled to have been in self-defense.

Everyone tries to encourage Alice to move on with her life—but with strange comments appearing online, a mysterious phone call telling her all is not as it seems, and her husband, nanny, and friends behaving strangely, Alice finds herself drawn to the mystery of who her intruder really was. As she digs deeper, she discovers a trail of dark secrets that spiral closer to home than she ever could have imagined.

About Katherine Faulkner

Katherine Faulkner, an award-winning journalist, studied history at Cambridge. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor and was formerly the joint Head of News at The Times (London). She lives in London, where she grew up, with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of The Break-In, The Other Mothers, Greenwich Park.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) on September 10, 2025

Intricate, taut, spellbinding, and twisty, The Break-In had me gripping my couch cushions even harder with each additional page. From the Hitchcockian premise to the increasingly dark secrets and lies, this was quite possibly Katherine Faulkner’s best novel to date. After all, the carefully staged t......more

Goodreads review by Maren’s Reads on August 27, 2025

Alice hosts a playdate with her friends and their children at her upscale London home when a distrusted intruder breaks in. Feeling threatened and worried for the children, Alice panics and kills him, later ruled an act of self-defense. But things do not sit right with her as more and more of the pe......more

Goodreads review by Laura on September 06, 2025

THIS BOOK WAS AN ATTENTION STEALER The break in is following wealthy London mum Alice, who with two of her friends are having a playdate in her home and a disturbed man breaks in. In self-defense Alice hits him over the head with a steel chair, and he ends up dying. Alice can not move on from the tr......more

Goodreads review by JaymeO on September 08, 2025

Easy to listen to, but a little meh… I have read all of Katherine Faulkner’s domestic suspense novels and The Break-In is probably my least favorite. Why? I had to really suspend my belief several times AND it was obvious what was going on, even though the MC didn’t have a clue! Alice kills an intruder......more

Goodreads review by Lina on August 23, 2025

4 / 5 Stars Ohhhh, what a tangled web we weave. This was a fun ride. In “The Break-In,” Alice kills a young man who breaks into her house during a playdate. Everyone tries to convince her to move on, because it was self defense, but when she gets an anonymous phone call that the intruder was in her h......more