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A Perfect Stranger

By: Shalini Boland
Narrated by: Alison Campbell, Tamsin Kennard, Ciaran Saward
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Annie comes home from a market trip with her young son, George, only to make a gruesome discovery. Could the perpetrator be the new lodger she and her husband, David, just rented their spare bedroom to?

Emily dreams of one day owning a house where her son, Josh, and the little one on the way can grow up, but when her husband, Aidan, insists on leaving his lucrative job as a luxury car salesman, she senses something more is afoot - even while she harbours a secret of her own. What is Aidan hiding, and will it jeopardize their young family’s future?

Meanwhile, Aidan’s boss, Marcus, finds himself caught between placating his wife Dani’s all-consuming desire to get pregnant and managing the less than savoury group of associates now helping to run his car dealership. How far is Marcus willing to go to prove his love for Dani? Or will his business come first?

From best-selling author Shalini Boland comes A Perfect Stranger, a domestic thriller that will keep you on your toes until the very end - and force you to question whether you can ever truly know someone.

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Wow

I was not expecting that. I enjoyed every minute of this book. What deceit. Love it

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Absolutely unputdownable!

Brilliant listen. As always it’s a start-to-finish listen. I love all Shalini Boland’s books.

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Some tedious dialogue, ok story, mixed performances

The story surrounds Emily and Danni and their families, specifically the trouble their husbands get in. Their lives intertwine.
There is so much repetition of tedious dialogue that I found myself skipping 30 seconds at a time to get to something new. The narrator for Danni made her sound stupid and the accent was so heavily emphasised at times it made me cringe. Emily’s narrator was excellent.
The male narrator’s part was so small it could have been either expanded to add more interest or removed completely.
The story was ok, sometimes kept the reader waiting so long that you start to lose interest. Some elements could have been researched and gone into in a bit more depth, rather than skimming over the top of the subject just to revert to more dwelling over a character’s thoughts and feelings.
Announcing Aiden’s death right at the beginning of the book just to build up to that point and then repeat it all over again was a) odd because we then knew what was going to happen and b) just filler, repeating what we have already read.
Overall it was ok, by the time the end scene happened I wanted to know the result although it was fairly predictable.

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Brilliant

Shalini is up there with my favourite authors and this new offering doesn’t disappoint. Thoroughly addictive listening, with a great twist at the end!

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A good read, keeps you guessing to the end

What a final twist! Loved this book, thought it well written and plenty of twists in the book.

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final twist

Story seemed slow at first but builds in pace and has a final twist at the end.

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It was ok

It was ok. The author wrote in great detail about the characters and situations and the book builds to one main event, that weirdly hasn’t got much detail!

I found the story as a whole quite long winded, but the end of the book quite rushed.

Seems like it was teeing up for a sequel, but I’m not sure I will listen to that.

Glad I didn’t pay for it, but ok for a freebie.

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Fantastic!

Well told story that will keep you hooked from chapter one!

Very enjoyable listening experience!

Totally recommend for all!

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It was all a bit hard to follow at the start

But once I made it through the first 10 chapters I was hooked. A woman standing by her man, giving up everything to run away at start a fresh, is something from a fairytale. But Emily has a secret too. I love how the stories start in totally opposite scenarios then twist and turn, until the circle is complete.

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Really enjoy this book

This book I finished in a day! Really good story but I also love the main character, very relatable and kept me listening. I didn’t expect the ending either!

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