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The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Nothing’s as bad if you put it in writing. It helps you to take control, order things. Find a pattern, like you said. When I was at my happiest, or when I was having most fun, at university, I didn’t write at all. I started again when my marriage began to go wrong. It’s a form of therapy, I suppose. There’s a strange comfort in looking back at your worst times and realising that you got through them. Introduction  Elly Griffiths’s The Stranger Diaries is a thrilling blend of modern crime fiction and classic Gothic storytelling. The novel follows Clare Cassidy, a literature teacher and amateur biographer of the fictional Gothic writer R.M. Holland, whose eerie tale "The Stranger" is woven into the fabric of this multi-layered mystery. When Clare's colleague and friend is found murdered, the story spirals into a chilling investigation, handled partly by DS Harbinder Kaur, a sharp and unconventional detective. The narrative, told from multiple perspectives, explores themes o...