The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda

The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

What happens when your best friend becomes your worst nightmare...

Having reached a dead end in Boston, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs a change. When she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who is moving to rural Pennsylvania, Leah decides to join her. But their fresh start is quickly threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later.

Determined to find Emmy, Leah helps Detective Kyle Donovan to investigate her friend's life for clues. But with no friends, family or digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Forced to question her version of reality and to save herself, Leah must uncover the truth - no matter how dark or terrible it may be...


Forced to leave her job as a reporter in Boston when she goes too far on an investigation, Leah Stevens finds herself running from her past to Pennsylvannia with her friend Emmy Grey who equally wants to escape a traumatic relationship.

Leah re-invents herself and takes a teaching position in the small town while Emmy manages to get by cleaning and doing bar work, they pass each other like ships in the night as Leah works days and Emmy works nights.

When a woman who looks remarkably like Leah is attacked and left for dead and Emmy goes missing, Leah starts to question how much she really knows about her roommate. Getting no where with the police looking for Emmy Leah draws on her investigative skills and tries to solve the mystery herself. It seems Emmy has vanished but more worryingly it seems to those around her that she never existed at all. To save her sanity and her clear herself of any involvement leading to the attack of the woman at the lake, Leah must uncover the truth herself whatever the consequences.

It was an OK psychological thriller, it had pace but I felt that it was racing towards a finale that just didn't live up to expectations. I was expecting more but there was no twist or curve ball ending it all just kind of fizzled out. It was just an anti-climax really with unanswered questions hanging in the air. I feel it could have had a much more explosive ending that left the reader reeling but it was a missed opportunity. Having said all that it was still a decent read and I would recommend, it was a good read but not a great read so I can only give it 3 stars.

I would like to thank the publisher for sending this in exchange for an honest review.