Lisa Unger

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the...

Ridley Jones, a magazine writer is informed by the FBI that her late uncle, Max Smiley (who's really her biological father), is still alive. Max was the head of Project Rescue Organization which saved at risk kids from abusive parents. Ridley's adoptive parents are also involved with Project Rescue. The FBI believe that Max is involved in the disappearance New York Times journalist, Myra Lyall and possibly at the center of a sex slave trade.)

When a New York City artist with a dubious past is accused of murdering her second husband, Lydia Strong and her partner, private investigator Jeff Mark, find themselves having to confront a killer from their past in order to solve the case.

"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories-a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...