The Red Room is a 2001 psychological thriller novel by Nicci French,[1][2][3] the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

Kit Quinn is a psychologist who ends up scarred after meeting a troubled arrested man.

When she goes back to work after the incident she is asked to review a case for the police, in which the man who scarred her is the main suspect.

Against everyone else's suggestions she decides to defend this man, at least until more evidence is found.

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