Title: A Stranger in the FamilyAuthor: Diane Saxon
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Kindle ARC
No. of Pages: 278
Date of Publication: February 27, 2026
My Rating: 4 Stars
DESCRIPTION:
As the last of my children leave home, I’ve persuaded my husband we should move house.
Clearing out thirty-odd years of rubbish is overwhelming, but nothing prepares me for what I find in my attic.
It’s a hint at a hidden horror. A box of secrets I only glimpsed, before I was disturbed.
And now it’s gone.
Someone in my home has removed it. Which means someone I love thinks I know their secret. A secret so dark, I refuse to contemplate it. Until I am forced to.
In this chilling novel by Diane Saxon, Emma is packing up her house for a move she has genuinely been looking forward to. But everything she believes about her life is thrown out the window when she discovers a box buried deep in the attic. For years, women have been murdered, and something deep within Emma tells her that what she’s found is connected. It’s a horrifying realization — one that could detonate her long marriage to Ralph.
The story unfolds from multiple perspectives. One of them belongs to a lorry driver who accidentally kills a woman. Before long, it becomes disturbingly clear that these murders will continue over the course of years. Like me, if you’re trying to connect the dots between what Emma discovers and the chilling voice of the killer, your mind will likely go to the same place mine did — it would have to be Ralph, wouldn’t it?
Meanwhile, Emma’s personal life is unraveling in quieter but equally unsettling ways. As the mother of a married son and twin boys away at university, she begins to question how much of her life has truly been the idyllic existence she believed it to be.
Diane Saxon keeps the tension tight throughout — from the opening murder, to Emma’s discovery of the box, to the shifting dynamics within her family. I was completely drawn in and genuinely loved the twists. I will definitely be reading more from her in the future.
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