
The trend has been coined Gothic Suspense. I have recently noticed a trend in crime fiction. You don’t know me."Ĭlare becomes more certain than ever: “The Stranger” has come to terrifying life. Writing that isn't hers, left on the page of an old diary: "Hallo, Clare.

Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger,” left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favourite literature. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year.

A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R.
