The Perfect Stranger

Author Megan Miranda

Published in April 11, 2017

The perfect Stranger is a novel of psychological myster

Leah Stevens                                                          Kayle Donoval

Emmy Grey

Paige and Aaron                                     Leah’s mom and Rebeca

Davis Cobb                                                      Theo Bortom           

Molly Laughllin, and Izzi Marone

Bethany Jarvitz and James Finley

 Megan Miranda takes us through a series of mysterious events that traps us and at times we do not know what to expect. the book talks about Leah Stevens,

A Boston reporter who lives with her friends Paige and Aaron with whom she also shares an office in the newspaper where they both work. Leah is investigating an epidemic of suicides at Boston University. She held out her hand when she could not get the job she needed and they invited her to share her apartment with her, suddenly a strange event happens, various circumstances make her think that Aaron tried to kill her, Leah tells Paige that Aaron is a dangerous man but She does not believe her and puts a restraining order on Leah.

Leah disappointed, and sad the only thing she wants is to leave Boston. coincidentally he meets an old friend, Emmy, who is going through a sentimental failure and proposes to Leah to start his life living together in another place where nobody knows them. Leah talks to her mother and sister Rebecca and although they do not agree with that decision, she can not do anything that

Western Pennsylvania, a beautiful town where Leah and Emmy  start their new life in a comfortable house  they rented in the name of Leah.

Leah, soon accommodates herself in a school as a teacher and Emmy told her, she already had gotten work like house cleaner and hotel employee both had different schedules for that reason it was rare that they coincided.

Suddenly Leah begins to receive text messages, emails, and strange calls that she attributes to a classmate of the school: the coach Davis Cobb person whom his students love and respect him, but who is addicted to drinking and with whom he did not like much read, because he bothered her with insinuations not pleasant for Leah

One day was found a woman brutally attacked, Bethany Jarvitz and police unfairly imprison Coach Davis Cobb because there is a witness who identifies him as the crime actor.

Leah is involved with Davis Cobb for calls found on his cell phone to Leah’s phone. rumors and accusations overwhelm Leah, when she notices something more worrying

her friend Emmy did not come home!

Emmy has not returned home after 5 days

The friendship that has emerged between Detective Kayle Donoval and Leah, thanks to Leah’s cooperation in the Jarvitz Vs Cobb case

Detective Kayle Donoval gives her the confidence to tell him about his fears about Emmy.

She informs him the disappearance of her friend she tells him that she is afraid that she is missing because Emmy would never leave without her clothes or her toothbrush if she thought to be away for several days.

When she realizes that she really does not know

anything about her friend, or the exact name. She did not know if her last name was GRAY or G-R-E-Y, her birthdate or if Emmy has a family and if she had, where it was.  Leah does not have any photograph, nor is there any information about the license of the car, registration, or telephone, in a word, there is no proof of the existence of Emmy Gray, apart from the word of Leah Stevens.

On the other hand, Leah begins to receive anonymity telling her that Davis Cobb is not the attacker of

Bethany Jarviz and she communicates it to Detective Donoval

Leah suspected that one of her students was the one who sent the anonymous saying that Coach Cobb was not the attacker, and confirmed it when she saw Theo Burton suspiciously inside the classroom and in front of the computer turned on, so she set out to watch them very much. close to check who was and why the anonymous sent them to her and not the police.

Days later Leah checked who sent the anonymity because Izzi Marone another student confessed that Theo Burton was the eyewitness to the attack on Bethany Jarvitz but could not say anything because her life was in danger, so Leah had to keep quiet about that fact Detective Kayle Donoval

Soon love arises between Leah and Davis Donoval, but also the problems

because the doubt of the truthfulness of Leah’s words

about Emmy and she thinks that he does not want to risk his career for her.

Leah decides to travel to Boston to investigate something about Emmy.

in Boston Leah went to all the places where Emmy told her she had worked and the result was the same as in Pennsylvania: Nobody knew anything. there was no data of any woman with the name of Emmy Gray, but what Leah discovered left her perplexed: In a hotel if a woman worked with the description of Emmy for a whole year, but her name was not Emmy, but Leah Stevens! !

 Emmy for years usurped false identities including Leah’s. Leah discovered too a complot between Bethany Jarvitz, Emmy and a man called James Finley.

reason why Leah decides to return to Pennsilvania and with the aid of a neighbor of Bethany Jarvitz who confuses Leah like relative of Bethany by its great similarity between both manages to enter its department while Bethany continues very serious in the hospital. There Leah found many answers.

Back in town, Kayle visits Leah and tells her that they found Emmy’s car in the lake and inside there was a dead man whom they identified with the name of James Finley.

Leah wants to tell him about her discoveries but before she decides to meet with the person who can help her understand everything. Theo Burton

Leah quotes the Detective Kayle Donovan to tell him the whole truth.
all attacks, deaths and disappearances were linked to each other

Bethany, Emmy and James were complicit in the death of Bethany Jarvitz’s husband some years ago,

and planned to steal Leah’s identity thanks to their huge resemblance and pretended to blame her for all their felonies, but something went wrong between them and ended James Finley died at the hands of Bethany Jarvitz and Bethany attacked presumably by Emmy. the eyewitness was a student of Leah who sent him anonymous Theo Burton.

A few days later, Emmy or whatever her real name was, she showed up at the house in front of Leah and clarified many doubts that Leah had, and she could not believe the atrocities Emmy confessed, that did not seem to be her old friend from the university, she could not believe that for that woman she would have worried so much, and remembered some words from her old friend Pagie’s past about Emmy
“There is something wrong with that girl ” if Leah had paid attention to her friend’s words in that moment, she would never have been in the danger in which she was living with her.

In minutes the police arrived for Emmy,

Leah had the line open to Detective Kayle Donoval’s phone

and listened to the whole conversation they have all the evidences to her arrest.

“There’s something not right with you”

“There is something wrong with that girl”

“This is a Witch hunt”

“Coach Cobb is Innocent”

Glossary

Chill

Verb When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.

Flare

Noun A flare is a small device that produces a bright flame. Flares are used as signals,

Journalist

Noun A journalist is a person whose job is to collect news and write about it for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio.

Lead

Verb. in being ahead or taking someone somewhere.

Restless

adj if you are restless, you are bored, impatient, or dissatisfied, and you want to do something else.

Shape

Noun You can refer to something that you can see as a shape if you cannot see it clearly, or if its outline is the clearest or most striking aspect of it.

Snoop

Verb If someone snoops around a place, they secretly look around it in order to find out things.

Witness

Noun. A witness is someone who has, who claims to have, or is thought, by someone with authority to compel testimony, to have knowledge relevant to an event or other matter of interest.

I recommend this book to all people who like the mystery,

and understand it to me personally this book caught my attention,

although for my taste has some circumstances

that were not well explained or were inconclusive.

Leah Stevens

Leah of Biblical name, Jornalist, brave, hardworking, good friend, her father died when she was still very young and her mother and sister Rebecca survived. she creeps fears and a fault of which she has to escape from Boston, the city where she was born and where she was a star reporter in a newspaper. Start a new life in Western Pennsylvania next to the one that believes his best friend Emmy.  She gets a job teaching at a local school, she is loyal to her students who teaches, but soon she was involved in a police affair, at the same time that she discovered that her dear friend and roommate Emmy, had disappeared.

Emmy Grey

Emmy Grey: You never know for sure if she’s good or bad, if she’s guilty or innocent, she’s all a lie, usurper, and thief, steals the identity of her good friend Leah. One day Emmy disappears and the same Leah doubts whether it existed or was part of his imagination.

Kayle Donoval

Kayle Donoval: Handsome and intelligent young Detective who falls in love with Leah and helps her look for her missing friend, and isn’t matter put in risk his career to help and protect . always on the lookout for Leah although sometimes leaves her alone for fear of losing her post.

Paige and Aaron

Paige and Aaron a couple friends of Leah with whom she lived at their home during a time in the she investigated a epidemic of suicides at the university in Boston, but she was involved in a problem with Aaron,  and Page did not believed to Leah. For what she came out fleeing Boston. Page put an order of restriction against Leah, and soon Aaron committed suicide. Paige hates to Leah and she fears a vengeance on Paige.

Davis Cobb

Davis Cobb, coach of the school where Leah works, married, weak of character and drunk who are wrongfully blamed for hitting and almost killing a woman. Bethany Jarvitz. And the one Leah mistakenly accuses as a stalker.

Bethany Jarvitz

Bethany Jarvitz woman beaten to almost kill her and by who was unjustly imprisoned Davis Cobb, an rarely Leah-like woman. Murderer, accomplice of Emmy Grey and James Finley who they found dead and inside the same lake where they found Bethany Jarvitz.

 Izzi Marone

students who Inadvertently  giving Leah tips about

the witness who witnessed the attack on Bethany Jarvitz

 Theo Burton

Eyewitness to the attack on Bethany Jarvitz and who regularly sends Anonymous to Leah.

Thank you all I hope you enjoy the book

With Love Marta Lopez