The Other Family

A Novel

By: Wendy Corsi Staub

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

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“Great psychological suspense with a wallop of a twist.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub makes her trade paperback debut with a fast-paced thriller in the vein of Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Megan Collins’ The Winter Sister. Here, a family making a fresh start moves into a house which was the site of an unsolved triple homicide—and are watched by an unknown person...

The watcher sees who you are...and knows what you did.

It’s the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved.

Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing around like a bloodhound. Nora unearths a long-hidden rusty box in the flowerbed. Oldest daughter Stacey, obsessed with the family murdered in their house, pokes into the bloody past and becomes convinced that a stranger is watching the house. Watching them.

She’s right. But one of the Howells will recognize his face. Because one of them has a secret that will blindside the others with a truth that lies shockingly close to home—and to this one’s terrifying history.

Good but pay attention

As an audio book, I got lost a few times. Some of the characters are “sprung” on us to help make the story make sense. Not as well developed as I like. Overall, good story and it ends up with questions answered

What happened at the end?

So many open ended pieces that I feel like it was just shut down abruptly.

Undecided

I thought I was enjoying this book until the ending when I had to re-listen several times to get the storyline and names straight and to figure out what really happened.

Good story

Good story with well developed characters and a twist. The narrator did a good job with the voices of the different characters.

Satisfying in suspense!

I loved this! Great stand alone book! The story telling really packs on the suspense and twists!!