The Stranger Upstairs
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2018
- Category
- Suspense, Psychological, Thrillers
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487004231
- Publish Date
- Sep 2018
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Trap, a fast-paced psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth that asks how well we know the ones we love.
Several years ago, your husband, and the father of your young son, disappeared. Since then, you’ve dreamt 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 the moment 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?
From internationally bestselling author Melanie Raabe, The Stranger Upstairs is another dazzling and dizzying psychological thriller guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very last page.
About the authors
MELANIE RAABE was born in 1981 in Jena, Germany, and grew up in a 400-person village in Thuringia and a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia. She has worked as a journalist, scriptwriter, blogger, performer, and theatre actress. The Trap is her first novel and is being published in fourteen countries. She lives in Cologne.
IMOGEN TAYLOR is a freelance literary translator based in Berlin. She is the translator of both The Trap and The Stranger Upstairs, as well as Truth and Other Lies by Sascha Arango and Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit.
Excerpt: The Stranger Upstairs (by (author) Melanie Raabe; translated by Imogen Taylor)
All hell breaks loose: a storm of flashes, pushing and shoving, shouts, cameras pointing at me, photographers calling my name. The stranger reaches out and presses me to him. I gasp and try to back away, but he doesn’t let go.
It isn’t that Philip was tall and strong, while this man is hardly bigger than me — nor is it the beard that covers his cheeks. It isn’t even the strange way in which he moves.
It is his eyes, which lack all warmth. The hair on my neck stands on end.
THAT. IS. NOT. PHILIP.
Editorial Reviews
What more could you want from a story than complete, unrelenting tension and creepiness to the point that you are nearly terrified to find out what is going to happen? That, in a nutshell, is The Stranger Upstairs — this absolute rollercoaster that makes you question everything you thought you could trust.
Magnolia Reads
Another unsettling and slippery psychological thriller that keeps you guessing up to the last page.
Readings
Full of suspense, right up to the final paragraphs . . . An edgy thriller.
AU Review
This psychological thriller will keep you guessing until the end.
Daily Life
A classic domestic noir . . . Generates sustained psychological suspense that gets under the skin.
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