A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena

While I didn't think Shari Lapena's last book, The Couple Next Door, was ah-mazing, it wasn't bad either, and I enjoyed it on the whole. I guess the same can be said about her latest release, A Stranger in the House. In fact, I could say exactly what I said in my review of Couple and still have it hold true: "After so many good books with unreliable first person narrators, to have the whole thing done in the third person ends up feeling cold and unpersonable." (me, a year ago)

It starts off with a car accident, and the woman who was driving the car, Karen, can't remember what led up to it, but she was driving frantically in a "bad" area of town. And there just happens to be a dead body near the scene of where Karen had her accident. Was she fleeing the scene? Did she kill someone? And why does she have no past before the few years she's spent with her husband, Tom. As the police start to connect the dots, her obsessed neighbor begins inserting herself into the situation, and, as they say, the plot thickens. Read this on the beach, by the pool, or whenever you want a distracting but not too captivating read, and expect a now "classic" Lapena twist at the end.