THE STRANGER BEHIND YOU is a clever story within a story. But I would call the main story a mystery, not a thriller.

Jean is a journalist who has written a newspaper article, 3 years in the making, exposing a high-profile man as a sexual predator. The night she comes home from a party celebrating the article's publication, she is attacked in her home, leaving her with a serious head injury. Yet she refuses to contact the police or go to the hospital. Yes, she has an excuse. But it sure is not good enough.

Soon thereafter, Jean is offered a book deal, enabling her to move to a safe apartment. There she meets her neighbor, an old woman named Lillian who tells her her story. If you think Lillian is odd and she seems suspicious, just go with it; she makes sense in the end.

Lillian‘s story has many similarities to Jean’s. This is what makes THE STRANGER BEHIND YOU above the average mystery.

While Jean is learning to live in her new safer apartment, contending with the results of a head injury, the wife of the sexual predator she exposed is secretly trying to expose Jean’s “lies.” Apparently, she is the stranger in THE STRANGER BEHIND YOU.

Although this book is predictable in a few places, it certainly is a convoluted mystery.