The Housemate

By Sarah Bailey

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951709969
• ISBN13: 9781951709969
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Polis Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"

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!