The Intruder
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $31.99
Publisher Description
There's someone at your front door—should you let them in? Find out in a riveting new thriller from global sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid, Freida McFadden!
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She's young. She's alone. And she's covered in blood.
The girl won't explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The girl has a dark secret. One she'll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
In this taut, deadly tale of survival and desperation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden explores how far one girl will go to save herself.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A snap decision turns a stormy night into a tightrope walk of danger and deceit in this tense psychological thriller from Freida McFadden. Casey is riding out a violent storm in her woodsy New Hampshire cabin when she makes a bizarre discovery: In her shed, she finds a blood-spattered 13-year-old girl cowering in the corner, clutching a knife with the name “Eleanor” scrawled on it in marker. From the moment Casey invites Eleanor into the house, the tension starts building…and building. Splitting into two timelines with alternating POVs, McFadden uses the present tense to effectively make the entire narrative feel up close and real. As Casey navigates increasingly disturbing events in the present, Eleanor reveals the dark past that led her here, from her abusive hoarder mother to the friendship that became her lifeline. A trio of narrators create a truly cinematic effect as the story unfolds. Get ready: When the twists start hitting, they hit hard.
