{"id":34579,"date":"2019-04-22T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=34579"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:39:42","slug":"the-stranger-diaries-by-elly-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-stranger-diaries-by-elly-griffiths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Single mother and English teacher Clare Cassidy’s days are filled with teaching classrooms full of high school students in The Stranger Diaries<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Elly Griffiths.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Luckily for her, she is able to devote one class a year to her specialty, the literary works of Gothic writer R.M. Holland, focusing on his most famous story, T<\/em>he Stranger<\/em>.\u00a0 Clare is considered an expert on Holland and as a teacher at Talgarth High, she has access to the private quarters of Holland, who lived in part of the school during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Clare’s world is rocked when a close colleague is murdered and the death becomes more bizarre when a note found next to the body quotes a line from The Stranger.<\/em>\u00a0 She is shocked when the police reveal that they suspect someone close to her.\u00a0 Could it be a fellow teacher?\u00a0 Maybe someone else who has a fixation on Holland?\u00a0 Prompted by the police to recall an event with the deceased teacher the summer before, Clare turns to an old diary in the hopes it will spark a remembrance that may prove helpful.\u00a0 Events\u00a0 begin to get even stranger when\u00a0 she begins to find writings next to her own that are in a different handwriting.<\/p>\n

Hallo Clare. You don\u2019t know me.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon thereafter another body is found, this time in Holland’s old residence in a small concealed room.\u00a0 The teacher’s body is found with the same note as the previous victim, an ominous sentence from The Stranger<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0Is Clare in danger or is she hiding something more sinister?\u00a0 The discovery of the bodies begins to mimic the plot from Holland’s masterpiece and everyone wonders who will be next?\u00a0 Will life imitate art?<\/p>\n

The Stranger Diaries<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a fabulous thriller and suspense novel with a hint of the supernatural added.\u00a0 The\u00a0 setting of Talgarth High has just enough of the eerie “haunted house” quality to make the school almost have a life of its own.\u00a0 If you are a fan of the mystery and suspense genre I highly recommend the latest by Elly Griffiths!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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