These plans are put to the side after a fellow teacher, Ella, is found murdered, her body accompanied by the handwritten note 'Hell is empty', a quote from 'The Stranger' and Shakespeare's The Tempest. This excites her, as she has plans to write a book about Holland and hopefully solve some of the mysteries surrounding him, notably what happened to his wife Alice and possible daughter Marianna. Holland, author of the short story 'The Stranger'. The Stranger Diaries won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel and is the first in a series centered upon DS Harbinder Kaur.Ĭlare is a high school English teacher who teaches in an old house that was formerly the home of R. Holland, a long deceased author that Clare is researching.

Interspersed throughout the novel are portions of the short story 'The Stranger', written by fictional author R. The novel is primarily told through the viewpoints of English teacher Clare Cassidy, Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur, and Clare's daughter Georgia 'Georgie'. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 2018 through Quercus Publishing and was republished in 2019 through Houghton Mifflin.

The Stranger Diaries is a 2018 murder mystery thriller by British crime novelist Domenica de Rosa, writing under the penname of Elly Griffiths. Print (hardback, paperback), ebook, audiobook

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