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Not So Perfect Strangers

A Thriller

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One fateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tense domestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train that flips the script on race and gender politics.

"I'm a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha," she says. "Don't you think?"
Tasha Jenkins has finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Taking her teenage son with her, Tasha checks into a hotel the night before their flight out of D.C. and out of Kordell Jenkins's life forever. But escaping isn't so easy, and Tasha soon finds herself driving back to her own personal hell. As she is leaving, a white woman pounds on her car window, begging to be let in. Behind the woman, an angry man is in pursuit. Tasha makes a split-second decision that will alter the course of her life: she lets her in and takes off.

Tasha and Madison Gingell may have very different everyday realities, but what they have in common is marriages they need out of. The two women want to help each other, but they have very different ideas of what that means . . .

They are on a collision course that will end in the case files of the D.C. MPD homicide unit. Unraveling the truth of what really happened may be impossible—and futile. Because what has the truth ever done for women like Tasha and Madison?

Master of psychological suspense L. S. Stratton has written a gripping murder mystery about two perfect strangers whose lives become dangerously entangled, a must-read for fans of crime thriller books.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 23, 2023
      At the start of this overly ambitious thriller from Stratton, a pseudonym for romance author Shelly Ellis (the Gibbons Gold Digger series), 36-year-old Tasha Jenkins flees a burning Washington, D.C., house and reports the fire to 911, only later to confess to a firefighter that she set the blaze. Flashbacks introduce Madison Gingell, whose house will be burned down, apparently by Tasha. Both women are in unhappy marriages, and after a chance encounter Madison suggests they kill each other’s spouses as a way of both freeing themselves and avoiding being charged with murder. Maryland police detective Clayton Simmons suspects Tasha didn’t set the fire and wonders why she confessed to doing so. During an interview with Tasha, when Clayton reveals that a man and woman were found shot in the Gingell home, Tasha reacts with surprise. Multiple other twists compensate only in part for underdeveloped characters. Readers interested in a better riff on Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train plot would be better served by Larry Beinhart’s The Deal Goes Down.

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