🎧ARC Review: The House Sitter by Ellery A Kane

My review: 3.65⭐

Sweet, 70 year old, Iris is having trouble keeping up with her household chores. She meets Lydia at a diner and takes a liking to her, so she offers her a job and a place to live. Lydia accepts and brings along Seth to move in and help out too.

Told in the ‘before’ and ‘after’ as we follow Iris, Lydia and Maureen. I found this way easy to follow along with.

I thought Maureen was a top notch rookie cop and I really enjoyed her investigative skills. She didn’t care that she skirted on the line when she was supposed to take a step back. Do we have a set up at the end for a series featuring Maureen? I wouldn’t mind that at all.

Kristin James did a good job narrating for 8 hours and 35 minutes, easy to follow along at 2x. I even liked her male voices.

This is my first time reading/listening to Ellery’s work and I would be happy to read more from her.

*Thanks to Bookouture Audio, Ellery A. Kane and NetGalley for the advance audiobook. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb: Release date ~ June 14, 2022

She’s in your home. But can you trust her?

Newly pregnant and down on her luck, Lydia thinks her fortunes have changed when a customer at the café where she works offers her a job and a room in her plush Pacific Heights home.

It’s been years since Iris’s husband Dean died in his sleep and Lydia soon becomes the daughter Iris never had – making her cups of tea, helping her with the bills, and taking charge of Iris’s daily medications now that her memory has begun to fail.

Then one night, someone makes an emergency call from the telephone in the pristine kitchen. The police arrive to find the house has been turned upside down and no sign of Iris or Lydia. Dark and cold, this isn’t the welcoming family home it once was, and why has the telephone line been severed?

As the police unravel what happened that night, they discover a clue in Iris’s past that makes them question whether the two women met by chance after all. But who has everything to lose? And who is really in danger?

This heart-stopping psychological thriller is perfect for fans of Mark Edwards, Minka Kent and Lucinda Berry. As soon as you start reading The House Sitter, you’ll be hooked!

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