''The Doll's House'' is a 2013 book by British author Tania Carver.

Synopsis

The book centres on the discovery of a dead pre-transition male-to-female

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

individual on a

council housing Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011, when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing. D ...

estate in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

. The inside of the house is like a doll's house with pink ribbons and pink walls, stuffed toys and the table set for a tea party. Detective Phil Brennan on the Major Incident Squad begins investigating the puzzling case.

Reception

Author

Mark Billingham Mark Philip David Billingham (born 2 July 1961)"BILLINGHAM, Mark Philip David"

described the book as "seriously scary." In ''Female First'', the reviewer wrote "This book was full of psychopaths, gory murder scenes and scandal and I loved it. I ended up goading myself to read 'just a few more pages' all the way through." In ''Mystery Tribune'', the book was "recommended for ones looking for psychological thrillers" while the book was also reviewed in ''Publishers Weekly''.

References

2013 British novels 2010s LGBTQ novels 2013 LGBTQ-related literary works British psychological novels British thriller novels British crime novels British LGBTQ novels Psychological thriller novels Novels set in Birmingham, West Midlands Novels about transgender topics Sphere Books books {{2010s-thriller-novel-stub