Book Review - The Stranger Diaries - Elly Griffiths

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Death lies between the lines.

A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time?

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic writer RM Holland, she teaches a short course on it every year. Then Clare's life and work collide tragically when one of her colleagues is found dead, a line from an RM Holland story by her body. The investigating police detective is convinced the writer's works somehow hold the key to the case.

Not knowing who to trust, and afraid that the killer is someone she knows, Clare confides her darkest suspicions and fears about the case to her journal. Then one day she notices some other writing in the diary. Writing that isn't hers...

This was a book subscription pick which I really enjoyed.

It's quite spooky in places and there is a story within a story. It's written in several POV too. I do enjoy a book that has depth to it and, although I probably should have worked out the identity of the killer I didn't.

This seems to be the first book featuring the detective Harbinder Kaur so I'll be looking out for other books she appears in.

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