A Stranger in the House.

Tom and Karen Krupp are a quiet, law abiding, suburban couple until one night Karen has a car accident in a bad part of town. Karen isn't seriously injured but she has amnesia and has no idea what she was doing on the night of the accident. Why was she in that area, and what caused her accident? Then a dead body is found near the accident scene... Was it something to do with Karen? Perhaps she was fleeing a murder scene? 

Detective Rasbach is assigned to the case and, as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, finds that appearances can be deceptive and the people that you think you know the best may be the ones who are hiding the biggest secrets from you...

This is the second suspense novel from Canadian author Shari Lapena. I was a little disappointed in her previous book The Couple Next Door so I didn't have high expectations of A Stranger in the House.

It's a quick read with lots and lots of dialogue that makes it easy to whip through the pages and while, like the last book, it is mostly composed of short choppy sentences somehow this book seemed to flow better. It's not without it's faults. The characters simply weren't fleshed out enough for me to get the feel of them (having Tom Krupp, who seemed to be the most boring man in the world, as some sort of suburban sex god didn't seem at all feasible), and the constant use of the term 'housewife' grated on me. 

I didn't find this to be a nail biting, edge of the seat read it more of a 'hmmm I wonder what happens next' type book and the sprinkling of not so subtle clues throughout meant that it was easy to second guess a lot of the plot. 

 I found A Stranger in the House an enjoyable, if not thrilling, thriller and it had a nice twist at the end that did surprise me. I don't know that I would recommend it but it's good if you are in the mood for a easy to follow and not too challenging suspense story. 

It's a 7/10 type of book for me.