6/25/2023 0 Comments Rm holland the stranger![]() ![]() There is a story within a story, but it’s more to do with how the killer is using the texts than a mystery hidden within the text itself.īut even though the story is firmly situated in the present, with no chance of a mystery in the past, there’s still a wonderful sense of atmosphere. Holland’s lost letters at the start of the book, but was pleasantly surprised that it was not. ![]() ![]() I was expecting this to be one of those stories where the past influences the present (the dual-storyline type of mystery), especially given that Clare ‘found’ R.M. Holland and his famous short story, The Stranger? But what can she do? And what does this have to do with R.M. But when her best friend, Ella, is found murdered, Clare opens up her diary and finds words written by an unfamiliar hand:Īnother death follows and Clare quickly becomes convinced that the stranger writing in her diaries and Ella’s killer is one and the same. Holland, who used to own the school she teaches in. Clare Cassidy lives a fairly uneventful life as a teacher and single mother, journalling everything in her diary and trying to write a biography of the author R.M. The Stranger Diaries is a crime novel set in the English countryside. I saw this in the Heathrow bookstore, but since I was running low on pounds, I decided to just note it down and read it later. ![]()
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