The Housemate

By Sarah Bailey

Book Overview

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

Journalist Olive Groves worked on the "Housemate Homicide" story as a junior reporter and became obsessed with the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property sparking controversy and begging the question - what really happened between the three housemates that night? Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious and overly eager millennial podcaster Cooper Ng.

As Olive and Cooper unearth new facts about the story, a dark web of secrets is uncovered, forcing Olive to confront her own past traumas and insecurities that have risen to the surface. As she delves deeper than ever before, will Olive's suspicions threaten her future happiness and even her sanity? And will her relentless search for the murderer put her new family in danger?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915523648
• ISBN13: 9781915523648
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Datura Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Nicely twisty

This was a great twisty thriller with shocks and turns galore! I do like the format of an investigative journalist being the main character, the one in this case being Oli, a journalist who had reported on the Housemate Homicide nine years ago but now dives back in when the missing housemate, Nicole turns up dead. There are lots of red herrings, twists, lies, and secrets to uncover to get to the bottom of the case, hopefully before anyone else ends up dead! Oli and Cooper were such a good duo in this book and they were good foils for the past of paper journalism and the future of podcasts. Sarah Bailey did a good job of making Oli feel very real, with smarts, feelings, confusion, and nicely likable because she is not perfect and she does make mistakes but tries her best. She was a great protagonist and fun to travel with while she deduces and digs up the past with tendrils to other cases too. I enjoyed reading this and a big thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and reviews this novel!