The Stranger on the Stairs: A Novel

“Ruth Mancini writes thrillers with the certainty of someone who’s seen the law in action and knows exactly how to unpick it. Brilliantly smart, unsettlingly human and impossible to put down.”—Rob Rinder, internationally bestselling author of The Protest and The Suspect

The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge delivers a gripping thriller about a mother’s murder, a child’s memory, and what happens when a man is freed from prison after twenty years.

You were only seven years old when you witnessed your mother’s murder. Though you did not see her attacker clearly, you were certain who it was. Thanks to you, he went to prison for twenty years.

Now, he’s out.

And you are no longer sure that the man you identified that terrifying evening really was the killer. But if it wasn’t him, who was the stranger on the stairs?

And is he now coming for you?

Inspired by a shocking real-life case, The Stranger on the Stairs is a gripping psychological thriller by a criminal defense lawyer and internationally bestselling author who has seen it all.