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  • Published: 30 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781787636132
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00

The Other Tenant




The Queen of the killer twist is back in this gripping closed-circle thriller about an unusual home full of strangers, with a murderer in their midst . . .

THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

‘DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE’

Marlow has always lived in unusual places. But when she accepts a position as a live-in property guardian, she finds herself moving somewhere she swore she’d never return to.

Right from the start, she knows it’s a terrible mistake. The elegant Victorian school is due to be turned into luxury apartments, but its eerie, empty corridors are full of Marlow’s worst memories.

And now something sinister is happening on the site. One of the other tenants has disappeared without warning, and Marlow suspects that the nine other guardians know far more than they’re letting on. She’s determined to find out what happened to the missing woman – but which of these strangers can she trust?

And can she uncover the truth before her own past catches up with her?

  • Published: 30 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781787636132
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00

About the author

Lesley Kara

Lesley Kara is an alumna of the Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She lives on the North Essex coast. She is the author of two published novels: The Rumour, a Sunday Times Top 10 and Kindle No. 1 bestseller, and the critically acclaimed Who Did You Tell?. Her third novel, The Dare, is coming soon.

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Praise for The Other Tenant

The Other Tenant will take up residence in your mind from the very first page. A cleverly plotted thriller. I raced through it!

Holly Seddon, internationally bestselling author of THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE

A really original premise, thoroughly gripping, and more twists and turns than a rollercoaster!

Nikki Smith, author of THE BEACH PARTY

Totally gripping from start to finish. I simply HAD to find out the truth

S.E. Lynes, bestselling author of THE HOUSEWARMING

Lesley Kara is the queen of foreboding! She maintains a lingering sense of impending disaster from the first page until the last.

Emma Christie, author of FIND HER FIRST

I loved this tense thriller - the set-up is so intriguing and the characters leap off the page, with plenty of twists and turns that kept me reading late into the night

Laura Marshall, bestselling author of FRIEND REQUEST

A highly original setting and a creepy, atmospheric story - I was gripped!

Jackie Kabler, bestselling author of THE PERFECT COUPLE

The Other Tenant has such an original premise and I was hooked from the very first line. Dark, atmospheric and so compulsive, I raced through this cleverly plotted thriller. The ending gave me chills. I loved it

Claire Douglas, bestselling author of THE GIRLS WHO DISAPPEARED

A compulsive, suspenseful and riveting thriller with a great cast of characters that was impossible to put down

Nadine Matheson, author of THE JIGSAW MAN

An atmospheric tale that builds skilfully to a satisfyingly complex denouement.

Daily Mail

Lesley Kara knows how to keep things moving as she piles up the revelations. Fans of the genre will race through it.

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