The Other Passenger
One stranger stands between you and the perfect crime…The most addictive novel you'll read this year
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- 59,00 kr
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- 59,00 kr
Publisher Description
*** PRE-ORDER THE ONLY SUSPECT NOW, THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE, JEALOUSY AND DECEPTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE AND THE OTHER PASSENGER ***
‘Absolutely brilliant… An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book – we both loved it’ Richard & Judy
It all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with your charismatic neighbour Kit in the seat beside you. The next, Kit hasn't turned up for the boat and his wife Melia has reported him missing.
When you get off at your stop, the police are waiting. Another passenger saw you and Kit arguing on the boat home the night before and the police say that you had a reason to want him dead. You protest. You and Kit are friends - ask Melia, she'll vouch for you. And who exactly is this other passenger pointing the finger? What do they know about your lives?
No, whatever danger followed you home last night, you are innocent, totally innocent.
Aren't you?
Praise for The Other Passenger:
‘Nobody writes so incisively about couples’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year 2020
‘Filled with really excellent twists’ Stylist, Best books out in June
‘The queen of the urban thriller returns with her winning blend of whodunit and thoroughly unreliable narrators’ Red
'One of the twistiest plots you'll ever read' Cosmopolitan
‘Cleverly captures the envy zeitgeist’ Stylist
‘Stylish, suspenseful and absorbing’ Best
‘You won’t want to put down this roller coaster read!’ Closer
‘Gripping from start to finish’ Bella
‘Not only is Candlish a terrific storyteller, she has the gift of making you care about unlikable characters’ Guardian
‘I’ll be amazed if we don’t see The Other Passenger on screen before long’ London Evening Standard
‘The layers of plot astound’ Sunday Times Crime Club
‘Another clever tale from the author of Our House’ Prima
‘Brilliantly plotted’ Mail on Sunday
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Seasoned suspense writer Louise Candlish confidently refreshes the modern thriller in The Other Passenger. Focusing on a small group of Londoners who become friendly while commuting by river bus, the book opens with Gen Xer Jamie being questioned by police over the disappearance of millennial Kit after their boozy late-night quarrel. Generational conflicts quickly rise to the surface, as do the spectres of deception and greed, all while Candlish relates Jamie’s experience as the prime suspect via confiding first-person narration. Balancing clever plot twists with withering, conversational wit, she has written another nail-biter that feels frighteningly plausible.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This ingenious psychological thriller from British author Candlish (Those People) has more bends and turns than the Thames River, which plays a significant role in the action-driven plot. New mates Jamie Buckby, once a high-salaried marketing executive but now a low-paid barista, and Kit Roper, who works in insurance, are primarily traveling companions on the 7:20 a.m. ferry river bus from St. Mary's into central London. One morning, during Christmas week and after an evening of holiday binge drinking, Kit doesn't show up. Suspicion falls on Jamie when it seems as though he may have a motive for murder. Enter the women in the thickening scheme of things. Jamie lives unmarried in high style with moneyed real estate agent Clare; Kit lives with his assistant, Melia, and they struggle to make ends meet and envy Jamie and Clare their townhouse. Everyone seems to have something to hide, piling one lie on top of another. Dalliances form, alliances abound, and deception is rampant. Candlish's clever commuter horror offers enough stupefying chills to reward old fans and invite new ones.
