They found out that the real Finn had been “murdered” just before the murder on her parents. When Sam heard that, she knew that there was something wrong, because Finn wouldn’t be able to stay alive with a cutten throat for a few days.
It had been fur filled that 'Finn', who had to play Mackenzies daughter, was the confederate in the murdercase. Daley needed Finn’s name to write it in a testament, in which Mr. Mackenzie gave all his money to him. The real Finn would never do that, so he needed someone else to play her. Daley kept the real Finn’s body in his boathouse.
Before Sam discovered this collusion, also Danny and Mrs. Ferrer had been murdered. Mrs. Ferrer because she wanted to see Finn again before she went to her own country again. Michael thought that that would be too risky, so he killed Mrs. Ferrer and made it look like suicide. Danny was just at the wrong time at the wrong place. Danny just walked into the room when ‘Finn’ was packing her bags and Michael was with her. He had to leave a note on which was written that he had left with Finn, because they couldn’t live without each other. There was a note from Finn too, telling Sam that she didn't want to hurt her, but that they had to do it. These were not true. Danny was forced to write the note by Michael, and Finn was just his assistant. Michael and Finn took Danny to the boathouse too, there he was murdered (gunshot) and Michael went to a foreign country. ‘Finn’ took Danny’s car, drove it to an open place near the road, and put the corpses inside. Then she burned down the car. That made it look like Danny and Finn committed suicide, because they felt sorry for Sam running off together. The doctors tested Danny and Finn, but because it was the real Finn’s body, they found nothing controversial. Sam was now someone who knew that the real Finn had been murdered by Michael, and that Michael was after the McKenzie fortune. She already thought about there being two Finns, but she was not sure. She went to the hospital and asked for Fionas file. Then she tested a painting, made by Elsie, on which was ‘Finn’s’ blood. They had two different blood types. Because of that, she knew that ‘Finn’ was still alive, and that she was the one that had burned down the car, because Michael wasn’t nearby at that moment.
Then, Michael asked Sam to go out sailing, they already had done that before, and Sam didn’t like it. She knew that this could be the last trip she would ever make, but she did go sailing with Michael. At the boat, Michael admitted that he had killed Finn, her family, Mrs. Ferrer and Danny. After that confession Michael tried to kill Sam, but she hit him with an iron stick and he fell out of the boat. They found his dead body a few days later. Sam was wounded, but she recovered in the hospital. ‘Finn’ was still somewhere outside, so Sam decided to move back to London again to be safe. That day, Elsie didn’t came back from school. The babysitter told Sam that Sam’s sister took her to the park. Elsie was with ‘Finn’. The police found Elsie, but she was ok. Finn didn’t know that they were going to move. The first night in London, Sam got a call. Her house in Stamford had been burned down. Sam knew it had been Finn who did that, but she had no proof. . She knew that there was a chance that she would see Finn again.

1. 1. The Safe House, Nicci French, Penguin Books, 1998, 361 pages.

2/3. Behind the name Nicci French hide the Brittisch couple, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Together they wrote fifteen thrillers an two short stories. Nicci and Sean were married in 1990 and since 1999 have lived in Suffolk in East Anglia, England. Nicci has two children, Edgar and Anna, from her first marriage, and the couple have two daughters of their own, Hadley and Molly. Nicci Gerrard was born on 10 June, 1958. She grew up in Worcestershire, together with her two sisters and her brother. Sean French was born on 28 May 1959 in Bristol. He has two younger brothers Patrick and Karl. They met each other while they were working at New Statesman. Nicci left because she was offered a new job at The Observer. They both studied at Oxford University. n 1995 Nicci and Sean began work on their first joint novel and adopted the pseudonym of Nicci French. The Memory Game was published to great acclaim in 1997 followed by The Safe House (1998), Killing Me Softly (1999), Beneath the Skin (2000), The Red Room (2001), Land of the Living (2002), Secret Smile (2003), Catch Me When I Fall (2005), Losing You (2006) and Until It’s Over (2008), What To Do When Someone Dies (2009) and Complicit (2010). In 2011 Blue Monday, the Nicci and Sean also continue to write separately. Nicci still works as a journalist for the Observer, covering high-profile trials including those of Fred and Rose West, and Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr. Novels include Things We Knew Were True (2003), Solace (2005) and The Moment You Were Gone (2007), The Winter House (2009) and Missing Persons which will publish in March 2011. Sean’s last novel is Start From Here (2004).

4. Sam is a really smart woman who knows what she is doing. She also thinks before she does something.

‘Finn’ is really mysterious and in the and you know why. She is also weird for me she has a weird way of thinking.

5. The house where Sam lives is a safe place for Finn because it is in the middle of nowhere. I think that’s why it is called the safe house.

6. The book starts with horror because you are reading about disgusting murders. But when you go further into the book it’s a thriller. Because you still have that tensity but not like the beginning.

London and in the safe house.

I think the theme is death and murder.

The language is quite easy but there are many flashbacks witch make it harder to understand.

1.  “what did I know about this girl who’d lived under the same roof as me for two months, shared my meals with an charmed my daughter? Not much at all, although I realized as I thought that she had extracted a good deal of information with me.” Page 288
2. No I did not like the book. It couldn’t keep my attention. I had to push myself to start reading again. I think it was too difficult because there were so many stories walking through each other that I couldn’t see the forest through the trees any more.