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really enjoyed The Couple Next door by Shari Lapena and I was looking forward to reading her new book A Stranger in the House, this thriller had quite a few twists and turns and an ending I did not see coming.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Random House UK for my ecopy in exchange for an honest review, A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena is aPamela Dorman Books publication,

Oh dear. Well, this novel is the fourth one Ive read within a one or two month span with very similar plot lines,

Although, by the time I got this one from the library, Id grown weary of the repetitiveness, I have to say I enjoyed the quirky atmosphere, and the dash of dark humor thrown into the mix, which was refreshing.


Tom and Karen look like the ideal couple, But, their lives rapidly spiral out of control when Karen abruptly leaves the house after receiving a phone call, and winds up crashing her car in a bad neighborhood.
The accident causes Karen to suffer memory loss, so she cant tell anyone what happened or why she was in such dangerous location.


To complicate matters, a dead body is discovered near the car crash and it looks as though Karen could know something about the murder, and to top it all off, Karen begins to suspect someone has been in their house, moving little things around and going through her things.


With the cops asking pointed questions, Tom and Karen become increasingly paranoid, which puts an enormous strain on their once perfect marriage.


Karen finds support from her best friend and neighbor, who keeps a very close eye on Tom and Karen,


This story moves along at a brisk pace and has several very nice twists along the way, but it also has one of those annoying tacked on codas Ive begun to despise.
The last sentence was, no doubt, intended to leave the reader feeling a slight shiver down the spine, but honestly, I thought it was wickedly funny.
I really did laugh out loud, I cant go into details, but it was a very fitting conclusion and I would enjoy reading a short epilogue sometime in the future updating us on how the characters are doing.


Overall, this book is enjoyable enough, but it might have worked better for me if I wasnt burned out on the dueling female plotline and those tacky last minute addon twists.


This will be my last PT for a while, I do enjoy this subgenre, but the originality is beginning to fade, and the plots are starting to all run together, Time to shuffle around the TBR a little, I think,
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I was really enjoying this book, I was intrigued, And although it was a "classic" storyline, were if honesty reigned supreme, none of the chaos would have happened, I kept hoping for "more", Oh, and do not get me started on Tom, what a weak, pathetic spouse!!!!/

The ending, . . what the actual hellStars

Wheres the Oomph, when you need it

I admit that I went into “A Stranger in the House” with a few expectations.
Ive read a few books by Shari Lapena by now and Ive really liked them I think I have one left to read The Couple Next Door so I had EXPECTATIONS which as we all know is a mistake.
Wah wah. In the end, I enjoyed this novel but it didnt quite blow me away, Such is life.

Admittedly, I was immediately intrigued by the storyline, I mean, here we have Karen Krupp, upstanding housewife, who takes off one evening, before her hubby gets home from work, leaving her purse and cell phone behind.
She then drives to a dangerous neighborhood and crashes her car, Thereafter we find her hospitalized, with no memory of what happened,

A few days later, a dead body is discovered near the crash and police think that the two incidents are related.


I was desperate to know, At first.

Here we have a married couple and a very nosy neighbor, There are plenty of secrets and lies and by golly theres a murder and someone is guilty, of something! But who And of what Mrs.
Peacock in the library with the Revolver! As if! Baah!,

That said, my interest started waning fairly early on as the novel volleyed between the three key players and became wholly predictable, which in my opinion, was its downfall.
I did however enjoy the characters and am glad that I finally read this book which had been on my tbr for years.
I truly enjoy Ms. Lapenas writing and look forward to her upcoming release which I have coming up soon,

Published on Goodreads on, A Stranger In The House is a light, quick murder mystery, Not as great as Shari Lapena's first novel The Couple Next Door, the plot wasn't as tight or crisp in this book, but it was still a good and fun if predictable read.
The story kept me engrossed and I didn't want to put it down, I'm not giving itbecause the ending left something to be desired, Will there be a sequel I sure hope so because that ending was not enough, This is the story of Karen and Tom Krupp who have been married for about two years, One day Tom returns home from work and finds their home empty, it seems that Karen was making dinner and had to run out of the house in a hurry leaving her purse and cell phone behind.
 

Around the same time Karen wakes up in a hospital after being involved in a car accident that has left her partially amnesiac, what's worse is that she can't remember what happened immediately before the accident.


The same day of the accident a man was murdered close to the scene of the car accident which has the police pondering whether the two events are connected.
 

The novel is told from alternating points of view and is set in upstate New York, It is fastpaced and can be considered a psychological thriller,  

I did

not enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the author's previous novel The Couple Next Door because the plot was somewhat predictable and the characterizations seemed to me unrealistic at some points.
Also, I could not relate to the characters and found myself annoyed at the decisions they made throughout the novel,

Overall, the book was ok, Some people seemed to love it so I recommend it to all lovers of thrillers, Although not a big fan of “The Couple Next Door” I did enjoy the fast paced writing style of the author, Therefore, I decided to read “A Stranger in the House” In hope that the plot would be better with the same fast paced style.
Unfortunately, the plot of “Stranger” is far worse than “Couple a Next Door” based on the ridiculous characters and implausible twists that the author keeps coming long after the believability of the book is below zero.
Beyond that, the actions and reactions of her three main characters come across as fake, The “crazy stalker” doesnt act or think crazy when the author assumes her viewpoint but does things to further the plot that are completely ridiculous.
Also, all three of the main characters seem to be the same person when the author assumes their view of the story.
None of the men in the story act or think like men do when women are coming on to them or betraying them.
Finally, the police investigators are incompetent and the author definitely doesnt understand police interrogation techniques or police work in the least, At one point the author even has the brilliant investigator layout his entire case to the suspect in the middle of the investigation while she sits in dead silence with her lawyer never saying a word.
This never happens. At another point the investigators fingerprint every surface in a very large house including surfaces almost impossible to get fingerprints off of and that would have obviously been touched by the family living there after the suspect touched it yet incriminating fingerprints are found in all of these locations.
This not only doesnt happen it couldnt happen, Well at least the author still writes in a way that keeps the book flowing it just flows from one ridiculous subplot to the next.
Trust me skip this one Maybe one day Lapena will be able to develop her plot better so I can give her book a great review.
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