The Stranger in Room Six
A page-turning suspense thriller and perfect summer read from the bestselling author
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
'Jane Corry is the queen of family mysteries' ANDREA MARA
'Ambitious and unguessable' LOUISE CANDLISH
'A sinister thriller with a juicy whodunnit at its heart' THE SUN
You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you.
It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now, she's ready for her life to begin again, and she's set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart.
The owner, Mabel, has spent her life here. First as an evacuee during the Blitz and now as the care home's oldest resident, Mabel has held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that could kill if in the wrong hands.
But history won't stay hidden forever and someone is onto them both. Watching and listening from room number six, they'll stop at nothing to find out the truth.
With a past this dark, is anyone as innocent as they seem?
DON'T MISS THE CAPTIVATING NEW BOOK FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JANE CORRY
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PRAISE FOR THE STRANGER IN ROOM SIX:
'A deliciously dark story of murder and secrets' Claire Douglas
'Gripping and clever' Heidi Perks
'Clever, satisfying and packing an emotional punch' Andrea Mara
'Haunting and compelling' Nicci French
'Jane Corry's novels are always so vividly written and skilfully plotted and this latest is no exception' BP Walter
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Corry's underbaked latest thriller (after I Died on a Tuesday) follows a cast of shady characters who orbit a British retirement community called the Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart. Caregiver Belinda Wall has studiously managed to conceal her 15-year sentence for manslaughter after accidentally shoving her husband of 25 years to his death when the two argued about his infidelity. Mabel Marchmont, the facility's owner, has lived at Sunnyside since she was a child, first sheltering there during WWII and later converting it into a retirement home. With a national election on the horizon, she's flooded with guilt about something she did during the war that she fears could have political consequences in the present. As Belinda and Mabel form a tender friendship, the eponymous "stranger"—who knows them both—poses as a Sunnyside resident to carry out a mysterious job with life-threatening stakes. Corry rotates perspectives between the characters, teasing out questions about Mabel's past and the stranger's motives, but melodramatic cliffhangers and sluggish pacing keep the plot from achieving liftoff. It's not the author's best.
