A Man Downstairs
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Tyrone Savage
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Amy Matysio
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Wesley French
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Written by:
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Nicole Lundrigan
About this listen
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all?
“A gripping story of troubled relationships, mental illness, and buried secrets with a murder at its heart. . . . Clever, twisty, and chilling."—Shari Lapena, #1 bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying
From the acclaimed author of An Unthinkable Thing and Hideaway, a breath-stopping novel of suspense about a woman tormented by memories of the past and threatened by long-held secrets in the present.
Molly Wynters has moved back to her small hometown to care for her father, recently felled by a stroke and no longer able to communicate. She is ready to make a fresh start with her son after her divorce, but is haunted by both old events and new realities in her childhood home.
What Molly recalls of her young life with her father is full of love and care, even though a violent trauma defined her childhood: when she was a young girl, she witnessed her mother’s murder, and her testimony—“There was a man downstairs”—sent a teenager to prison. This tragic episode is still very much alive in the culture of the town, and the more Molly remembers, the more she fears that what she said on the stand all those years ago might not have been the whole truth.
After Molly, a trained therapist, volunteers for a local helpline, the threats begin. At first they seem random, but soon Molly realizes that she is a target, and even those closest to her seem suspicious, especially as unsuspected links between them emerge. More than one life was destroyed on that horrific long-ago day, and now someone intends to hold Molly accountable.
With its gripping descent into the shadowy corners of the human psyche, A Man Downstairs is both an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride and a masterful exploration of the fragile nature of memory.
©2024 Nicole Lundrigan (P)2024 VikingYou may also enjoy...
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What the critics say
“A gripping story of troubled relationships, mental illness and buried secrets with a murder at its heart—who really killed young mother Edie Wynters in the small town of Aymes almost forty years ago? Her now grown daughter is about to find out. . . . A Man Downstairs is a clever, twisty and chilling read."—Shari Lapena, international bestselling author of Everyone Here is Lying
"A sharply observed, layered mystery about obsession, desperation, and the dark secrets small towns keep to protect their own.”—Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Drowning Woman
"Combining sharp, assured prose with boundless humanity, this deftly plotted novel is a triumph. I stayed up all night racing toward a conclusion that provided more than just the deep satisfaction of a whodunit solved—it gave me chills, and made me think. Now all I want is another Nicole Lundrigan novel to become addicted to!"—Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky
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- Jenna
- 2024-05-12
enjoyed listening but...
there are a few moments that there is overlap audio, a bit mixed up. starting chapter 22
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- mini
- 2024-03-18
this is not a review...just a comment about an error
in chapter 22...the is a doubling in the recording many times...maybe you can fix it cause I paid for rhis book. thank you
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- Jane
- 2024-06-18
Faulty file...don't waste your credit on this one
As other reviewers have mentioned, the recording goes into some weird overlap recording starting with chapter 22, and is unreadable from there. Save your credit for something else.
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- Ashley Christie
- 2024-05-13
Unable to finish
Was completely unable to read this book. The audio was jumbled and overlapped. Called into audible and they refunded it so I could redownload. Didn’t change anything. I tried on a different device. Same issue. Let down and a waste of my money.
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- Jen
- 2024-05-28
good story play back is off
the story is good but at chapter 22 there is an overlap of audio. 2 different sections play at the same time
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