The Other Passenger: One stranger stands between you and the perfect crime…The most addictive novel you'll read this year Paperback – 10 December 2020 by Louise Candlish

Louise Candlish . Simon & Schuster Ltd . English

‘Absolutely brilliant… An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book – we both loved it’ Richard & Judy It all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with your charismatic neighbour Kit in the seat beside you. The next, Kit hasn't turned up for the boat and his wife Melia has reported him missing. When you get off at your stop, the police are waiting. Another passenger saw you and Kit arguing on the boat home the night before and the police say that you had a reason to want him dead. You protest. You and Kit are friends - ask Melia, she'll vouch for you. And who exactly is this other passenger pointing the finger? What do they know about your lives? No, whatever danger followed you home last night, you are innocent, totally innocent. Aren't you? Praise for The Other Passenger: ‘Nobody writes so incisively about couples’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year 2020 ‘Filled with really excellent twists’ Stylist, Best books out in June ‘The queen of the urban thriller returns with her winning blend of whodunit and thoroughly unreliable narrators’ Red 'One of the twistiest plots you'll ever read' Cosmopolitan ‘Cleverly captures the envy zeitgeist’ Stylist ‘Stylish, suspenseful and absorbing’ Best ‘You won’t want to put down this roller coaster read!’ Closer ‘Gripping from start to finish’ Bella ‘Not only is Candlish a terrific storyteller, she has the gift of making you care about unlikable characters’ Guardian ‘I’ll be amazed if we don’t see The Other Passenger on screen before long’ London Evening Standard ‘The layers of plot astound’ Sunday Times Crime Club ‘Another clever tale from the author of Our House’ Prima ‘A chillingly addictive and glamorous thriller' Sunday Post ‘Brilliantly plotted’ Mail on Sunday ‘Louise Candlish helped launch the ‘property noir’ genre with Our House and Those People. In The Other Passenger, she brings murder to the London commute' Observer ‘This author is so good at twisty yet completely believable domestic thrillers’ Good Housekeeping ‘Superior thriller’ Crime Review ‘Suspenseful and utterly absorbing’ Sunday Mirror ‘The suspense is maddening, and the conclusion refreshing’ Press Association ‘An ingenious thriller’ Irish Independent ‘The pacing is first rate, as is the handling of the first-person narration’ Sunday Times ‘Just brilliant; gripping from the first page with an incredible first person narrative and a sense of place that pulls you through the pages fast enough to make your head spin. Louise Candlish just gets better and better, I love her’ Lisa Jewell ‘A gripping read with a brilliant first-person narrative. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. It’s so good!’ BA Paris ‘A must read!’ Lucy Foley 'Louise Candlish is the queen of the sucker-punch twist' Ruth Ware 'Dark and clever and terrific' Nicci French 'I couldn’t put it down!' Shari Lapena ‘A tightly constructed, corkscrewing plot' Sarah Vaughan 'Psychological suspense at its most elegant and sinister' AJ Finn 'Louise is the mistress of the ‘Oh my God, this could be me’ nightmare' Fiona Barton ‘A stunning masterwork of style and suspense’ Jeffery Deaver 'Equal parts riveting, twisty, and unsettling' Stephanie Wrobel 'An instant classic' Mark Edwards 'Outstanding' Catherine Isaac

Categories: Thriller & Suspense

About the Author

Hello and welcome to my page... You may already know my domestic noir thrillers or perhaps you're curious and not sure which to try first - either way, you're in the right place! My latest release is A NEIGHBOUR'S GUIDE TO MURDER, out now in paperback in the UK and coming July 7 in the US and Canada. An instant Sunday Times bestseller, it's about a friendship between neighbours Gwen and Pixie that escalates to scandal and murder. It's been dubbed 'Notes on a Scandal meets Indecent Proposal', which I think is perfect description... The one before is OUR HOLIDAY, a Sunday Times bestseller, WHSmith Richard & Judy Book Club pick and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025 nominee. This features my favourite ever love-to-hate characters Perry and Charlotte, second home owners in the idyllic English beach resort of Pine Ridge. It's in development for the screen - I'll share news on that as soon as I can. OUR HOUSE is the one you may know me for as it's now a major four-part drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton (watch the full series on ITVX in the UK and PBS in the US). This won the British Book Awards Book of the Year - Crime & Thriller and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, the Capital Crime Amazon Publishing Best Crime Novel of the Year Award, and the Audible Sounds of Crime Award. It was also longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Specsavers National Book Awards. Not so long ago, I celebrated my 20th anniversary as an author with the news of two prestigious awards for my 90s-set thriller THE ONLY SUSPECT: the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award for Thriller of the Year and the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. Stay tuned for news of the TV adaptation - it will be the next of mine to hit our screens! A bit about me: I live in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the one in my books, with my husband, daughter and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie who is the apple of my eye. Books, TV and long walks are my passions - and drinking wine in the sun with family and friends. Authors I love include Tom Wolfe, Patricia Highsmith, Barbara Vine, Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. My favourite book is Madame Bovary. Be the first to hear about new releases and price drops by clicking on the +Follow button at the top You can also find me at: www.louisecandlish dot com X/Twitter: louise_candlish Instagram: louisecandlish FB: LouiseCandlishAuthor BookBub: LouiseCandlishAuthor #ANeighboursGuideToMurder #OurHoliday #TheOnlySuspect #TheHeights #TheOtherPassenger #OurHouse Author photo: ©Neil Spence

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