Trap Door by Dreda Say Mitchell

A Bloodhound Book 

About The Book: 

100 years ago young women were killed in this workplace. 

Is history about to repeat itself?

Rachel, a young woman in serious debt, needs to find a job fast before she’s made homeless. She gets a lucky break when she is offered a great position in a successful company. Then she discovers that the building was once a Victorian sweatshop with a tragic history. Is this why Rachel feels something increasingly sinister? 

Soon her new job becomes a living nightmare. Rachel desperately wants out, but she has no other way of escaping her debts. She’s trapped. Then she makes a shocking discovery.

Haunted by the death of others and as the present and past begin to close in, Rachel needs to find answers before she finds herself in grave danger… 

What is really going on in her workplace? 

And can she ever escape her inner demons?  

My Review:

This is a fast-moving story told from the first-person point of view. Rachel is in a mega jam and has to have a job. She has been through a lot in her past, and now she is going to face her issues again. Her new job site has a horrible past, a sad and tragic one. However, it seems to hold keys to its own issues and answers to her past. Thus this story goes down the mental rabbit holes, the trap door, to find the answers with Rachel. 

I found this story to be a bit twisty, and I'm not sure I got the answers to a few questions figured out completely. Would I read another book by this author? Yes, I would.

4 Stars

About the Author: 

Dreda Say Mitchell is an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, broadcaster, campaigner, and journalist. Since her sixth book she has been co-writing with Tony Mason. She is the author of eleven novels, with her debut awarded The CWA’s John Creasey Dagger. She has been a frequent guest on television and radio including Question Time, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, Victoria Derbyshire, The Stephen Nolan Show, Front Row and Woman’s Hour and numerous others. She has presented Radio 4’s Open Book. Dreda was named one of Britain’s 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. She was the 2011 chair of the Harrogate Crime Fiction Festival. Dreda and Tony’s work is currently in development for TV. She was born and raised in the East End of London where she continues to live.