The Perfect Stranger

The Perfect Stranger A Novel by Megan Miranda and published by Simon & Schuster is a great read. Thank you to Netgalley the publisher and author for my advanced copy for an honest review. I am one of those people who needs to read things in order so I did read All the Missing Girls and loved it. I feel that the plot was very well developed and the reverse chronological order was genius. So if you haven't read that do start there. I am very glad I did, even though books can be read as standalones I am so glad I read them together.
Failed Journalist Leah Steven's life has hit rock bottom when she runs into her old friend Emmy Grey in a bar in Boston. Emmy has just broken up with her boyfriend and because both women want to get away from Boston suggests that she and Leah move to rural Pennsylvania and start their lives anew. All is going well until a woman who bears a uncanny resemblance to Leah is assaulted and left for dead and Emmy disappears days later, this should have you hooked if I stop right here but this is just the beginning. The Journalist in Leah is determined to find Emmy, but the more time that Leah spends time looking the messier things get. Leah gets help from Kyle Donovan a detective from the area that helps. I feel that the intrigue of potential love for this story makes it so much better.
This roller coaster ride is read in the prospect of Leah, the character is so well developed and complex that it makes the story so much better. The more time that passes the more Leah starts to second guess her thoughts and memories. every time you as the reader get the feeling that the idea of Emmy is constructed. Is all this real? All and all a perfectly strange read.