The Lodger's Key

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She let a stranger into the house where her husband died. The stranger had a key. HE DIDN'T FALL. All summer, the notes have come through Claire Hatherley's letterbox. Three words, printed, no name. Five of them by October — and now she needs the money, so she lets the top room of her tall Cheltenham townhouse to a quiet young woman called Ivy. It is the house where Claire's first husband fell to his death fifteen years ago. On the first afternoon, Claire sees the old brass key on her lodger's keyring. It is the key that vanished the night he died. Ivy has come to prove Claire killed him. Claire has been lying about that night for fifteen years. And neither of them knows the truth — because the one person in the house who does has been waiting all summer for somebody brave enough to find it. The Lodger's Key is a twisty domestic thriller about a staircase, a lie, a missing phone and a key that fits a door it shouldn't — told by two women who each think they know what happened in the house on Albemarle Terrace. • Two narrators, short chapters, and a twist you can go back and find the clues for. • A domestic thriller with no sexual content and very little violence on the page — the danger is in the house. • Set in present-day Cheltenham over one October. Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Alice Feeney and Lisa Jewell.