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THE STRANGER INSIDE

The Stranger Inside, May 2017
by Jennifer Jaynes

Thomas & Mercer
284 pages
ISBN: 1477817913
EAN: 9781477817919
Kindle: B01LYE4TQ9
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"Unspeakable suspense that will leave you silently shocked at the end!"

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THE STRANGER INSIDE
Jennifer Jaynes

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted November 24, 2017

Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Suspense Psychological

A suspense mystery novel that totally had me shocked at the end, THE STRANGER INSIDE will leave you hunted days after finishing it! A little prediction while reading this one is expected, but more likely you will not see the end coming. This is great mystery writing at its best and Jennifer Jaynes did a remarkable job. No wonder she is USA Today's Bestselling Author with a suspenseful storyline like this!

The characters are like your next-door neighbors and you never know what skeletons that they might be hiding. The main character Diane is like any other mother wanting what is best for her children. Jaynes did a great job with making this mother loving and caring but firm when she needs to be. Then there are parts where you find yourself even wondering what you would do in her shoes!

Diane is a well-known writer whose husband recent suicide led her to mover her son and herself to Massachusetts where her daughter is in college. With this fresh start, she hopes to reconnect with her depressed daughter who does not communicate with her. Alexa tries to avoid her mother as much as possible leaving Diane on edge most of the time after young girls on campus are being murdered. This is too close to home for Diane who also fills some evenings helping at the local crisis hotline where she gets calls from someone claiming to be the killer. They know things before the news reports them. Diane is trying to find out whom she can trust and whom she can't as everyone in this town seems questionable. In the end, the answers she seeks are more than she bargained for.

This is tops on my list of amazing suspense thrillers! THE STRANGER INSIDE will not disappoint and has me wanting to read more of Jennifer Jaynes' novels.

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SUMMARY

After mystery author Diane Christie loses her husband to suicide, she and her son move to the small coastal town of Fog Harbor, Massachusetts. Her daughter is attending college nearby, and Diane hopes that her family can now begin to heal. But rebuilding their lives after the tragedy isnโ€™t so simple. Dianeโ€™s depressed college-age daughter, Alexa, still avoids her, critical of everything Diane does, and even her generally amiable teenage son, Josh, has started acting out. Diane pushes forward, focusing on her writing and her volunteer work at a local crisis hotline. She knows that healing takes time. But then a girl from Alexa's college is found strangled. Worse still, the murderer uses the crisis hotline to confess to Diane . . . and claims she is the only one who can stop the killing. And just when the glow of new love from an attractive admirer begins to chase away some of the darkness, more girls turn up dead, and Diane races to solve a mystery she fears will hit terrifyingly close to home.

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