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The Stranger Upstairs

By: Melanie Raabe
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Summary

From Melanie Raabe, the author of The Trap, The Stranger Upstairs is another dazzling, dizzying psychological thriller guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very last page.

Several years ago, your husband, and the father of your young son, disappeared. Since then, you’ve dreamed of his return; railed against him for leaving you alone; grieved for your marriage; and, finally, vowed to move on.

One morning, the phone rings. When you answer, a voice at the other end tells you your husband’s on a plane bound for home, and that you’ll see him tomorrow.

You’ve imagined this reunion countless times. Of course you have. But nothing has prepared you for the reality. For you realize you don’t know this man.

Because he isn’t your husband, he’s a complete stranger – and he’s coming home with you.

Even worse, he seems to know about something very bad you once did, something no one else could possibly know about . . . Could they?

©2018 Melanie Raabe (P)2018 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Critic reviews

Had me hooked from the start. Linda’s story unravels so cleverly, and Raabe keeps you questioning what’s fact and what’s not right to the end, ratcheting up the tension at the same time . . . A genuinely gripping debut (Debbie Howells, author of The Bones of You, on The Trap)
A very clever, mind-bending thriller (Woman & Home on The Trap)
You won’t be able to resist (Elle on The Trap)

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The tale was a real psychological drama with twists and turns.I felt the ups and downs that happens in the story. The lone mother with a child that is left in a limbo for 7 years. The return of the husband who appears like a stranger to her and the antics and sense of being punished by misdeed in the past and how her relationship with her toxic mother in law

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Long, 30% story, 70% long descriptions,l.

Long, boring and repetitive. Kept having to skip forward large chunks. There must be full pages of this book just describing a street, a view or a thought. Really regretted wasting a credit.

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