The housemate

First Title Value for Searching:

The housemate

Personal Author:

Bailey, Sarah (Australian author)

Physical Description:

370 pages ; 23 cm

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Summary:

Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng. As Oli and Cooper unearth new facts about the three housemates, a dark web of secrets is uncovered. The revelations catapult Oli back to the death of the first housemate, forcing her to confront past traumas and insecurities that have risen to the surface again. What really happened between the three housemates that night? Will Oli's relentless search for the murderer put her new family in danger? And could her suspicion that the truth lies closer to home threaten her happiness and even her sanity?

Subject Term:

Roommates -- Fiction.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction

Missing persons -- Fiction

Suspense fiction

Publication Info:

Aberdeen, NJ : Polis Books, 2023.

Subject:

Roommates -- Fiction.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction

Missing persons -- Fiction

Suspense fiction

Thrillers (Fiction)

Apartment-mates

Cohabitees

Homemates

Housemates

Room-mates

Columnists

Commentators

Suspense tales

Tales, Suspense

SAILS ISBN:

9781951709969

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Summary

The new standalone thriller from the award-winning writer of the bestselling Gemma Woodstock trilogy.

Three housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder.

Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade.

Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng.

As Oli and Cooper unearth new facts about the three housemates, a dark web of secrets is uncovered. The revelations catapult Oli back to the death of the first housemate, forcing her to confront past traumas and insecurities that have risen to the surface again.

What really happened between the three housemates that night? Will Oli's relentless search for the murderer put her new family in danger? And could her suspicion that the truth lies closer to home threaten her happiness and even her sanity?

A riveting, provocative thriller from the bestselling author of The Dark Lake , Into the Night and Where the Dead Go .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In 2005, reporter Oli Groves, the protagonist of this outstanding standalone set in Australia from Bailey (the Gemma Woodstock trilogy), is on the scene in St. Kilda when the police make a grim discovery: the stabbed body of University of Melbourne undergrad Evelyn Stanley in the house she'd shared with two other young women, Nicole Horrowitz, who's disappeared, and Alexandra Riboni. Alexandra, found drenched in blood and holding a knife from which her DNA and bloody fingerprints are recovered, is charged and convicted of Evelyn's murder. In 2015, Groves revisits the case, which has become a cause célèbre after a report that Nicole's body was found hanging from a tree next to a house in a remote community. Oli, who's now engaged to the widower of one of the original investigating officers, dives into the case again, even as her paper, the Melbourne Today, forces her to work on it as a podcast as well as a straight news story. Logical yet surprising plot twists never overwhelm the sophisticated characterizations that make suspending disbelief almost effortless. The judicious use of flashbacks build tension, and the denouement doesn't disappoint. Jane Harper readers will be riveted. (Feb.)

Booklist Review

Australian Bailey, best-selling author of the Gemma Woodstock trilogy--The Dark Lake (2017), Into the Night (2018), and Where the Dead Go (2019)--returns with her first stand-alone thriller. Reporter Olive Groves is no stranger to the Housemate Homicide story. In fact, she covered it nine years ago for Melbourne Today. A Melbourne University woman was found dead in a house share. One roommate went missing, and the other was accused of her murder. What happened to the missing roommate? Nine years later, after the missing roommate turns up dead, Olive is once again assigned to the story. This time she must team up with Cooper Ng, a young podcaster, to solve the nearly decade-old mystery. Dark secrets are revealed that threaten Olive's safety and cause her to recall disturbing memories from her past and question the people closest to her. Bailey explores multiple motives such as drugs, prostitution, and child pornography. Her sophisticated, multilayered plot will have readers longing for more books about this intriguing new leading lady.