![]() ![]() She is more worried however that she herself may be in danger, since she recently found a stranger’s writing addressed to her in one of her private diaries.ĭS Harbinder Kaur, a member of the Sussex Murder Squad, is in charge of investigating the case. ![]() This potentially could implicate Clare, the resident expert on Holland and his work. Furthermore, a note left by the corpse ties the murder to Holland’s tale. The story about Clare and her life as she navigates the tricky shoals of being a divorced mother of a 15-year-old teen is interspersed with excerpts from Holland’s most famous work, a chilling ghost story called “The Stranger.”Īs the novel opens, Clare’s close colleague has just been gruesomely murdered. This fact is especially meaningful to Clare because she is working on a biography of Holland. Holland, a (fictional) horror writer, once lived. ![]() ![]() One of the buildings of the school is the very same Gothic mansion where, in the upstairs rooms, R. The main protagonist (although narration alters in the book) is Clare Cassidy, 45, who teaches English at Talgarth High in West Sussex, England. Griffiths brings her skill with characters and crimes to bear in this standalone “book-within-a-book” that is not associated with any of her ongoing series. ![]()
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