Hannah and Allan McCullough appear to be living the good life. Hannah expertly plays the role of a beautiful and devoted wife (albeit the third wife) to her millionaire husband. Their two young and slightly weird children attend a prestigious private school. When Allan threatens to send their son to a school for disturbed children, Hannah feels she has no choice but to run. Even though she knows a body has been uncovered next door to their Orcas Island vacation home, this is where she flees to with her children. As the story progresses, we learn that the body is not all that is buried there.
THE BODY NEXT DOOR, by Maia Chance, is a multi-layered psychological thriller. It is narrated by multiple voices, both in the past and the present. New characters suddenly appear with no introduction or warning. Even so, this helps to make the narrative engrossing as readers don't know what to expect from page to page.
There is a large cast of characters and they are about as different from each other as they can be. As the story is expertly crafted, this unusual and often unsavory group, eventually reveals how they fit into the story. Their relationships with each other are complex and sometimes outright terrifying.
THE BODY NEXT DOOR is a profound and haunting story. It is well plotted and packed with layers of secrets and shocking revelations. Highly recommended.
Hannah McCullough’s life is far from perfect, but you’d never know it by looking at her. Instead, you’d see a beautiful young mother wholly devoted to her two children and a docile wife utterly besotted with her self-made millionaire husband, Allan. You’d see the designer clothes she wears, the luxury car she drives, the dewy-eyed au pair she employs.
You wouldn’t see the dark secret she carries.
But when a construction crew unearths the body of a young girl near the McCulloughs’ vacation home on Orcas Island, Hannah has no choice but to confront her past. She wonders how much Allan knows about the victim and the apocalyptic cult she was connected to. Meanwhile, Allan can’t seem to understand why his beautiful young bride, as polished and pristine as the collectible artifacts in his glass case, would threaten their fairy-tale lifestyle by digging too deep, in places she knows she shouldn’t.
As the police investigation into the gruesome discovery deepens, the facade of Hannah’s picture-perfect marriage starts to crumble, and she soon finds herself on a dire hunt for answers. And Hannah’s search takes an unexpected turn after she crosses paths with three strangers with shocking secrets of their own.
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