NEW YORK, Feb 24 — Best-selling novel Behind Closed Doors is to be adapted for the big screen reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Written by B.A. Paris, the thriller is to be adapted into a film with a script by Melissa London Hilfers, who describes the book as a "gripping, modern Hitchcockian thriller exploring what truth lies beneath the veneer we all project."

The novel tells the story of a perfect marriage gone wrong, following a woman whose dream husband suddenly becomes her worst nightmare immediately following their wedding day.

Published by St. Martins in the US and Mira Publishing House in the UK, the book sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week of publishing in Britain before going on to be published in over 35 countries and spend several weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

Currently more than 500,000 copies have sold in the US and over 800,000 have sold in the UK before its paperback release. — AFP-Relaxnews