The Lodger Who Never Left - A Gripping Psychological Thriller #1012166

She moved out in July. So who is still in the house?

Newly separated and desperate to keep her Victorian terrace in a quiet Bristol suburb, Jess Hartley takes in a lodger. Nina is perfect: calm, kind, a wonderful cook, and so good with nine-year-old Maisie. For a few months Jess even starts to sleep again.

Then Nina leaves without warning, and by October small things are moving. The post has been opened and sealed again. The sleeping tablets in the bathroom cabinet don't add up. The box room smells of Nina's hand cream. And Maisie says Nina still comes to say goodnight.

Her ex-husband says she is exhausted and wants their daughter to live with him. Her doctor says tired brains fill the gaps. But someone is watching Jess while she sleeps, and that someone knows what really happened on the night Jess's sister fell down these very stairs.

Jess has always said she was asleep. She is about to discover how much she has chosen to forget.

• An unreliable narrator you will not stop second-guessing
• A house with a secret hidden inside its walls
• Short, addictive chapters and a final line that lingers
• A British domestic thriller set in present-day Bristol