Book Review - The Stranger In Room Six by Jane Corry

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Title: The Stranger In Room Six

Author: Jane Corry

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Penguin

Publication Date: 12th June 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you.

It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now, she's ready for her life to begin again, and she's set on that happening at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart.

The owner, Mabel, has spent her life here. First as an evacuee during the Blitz and now as the care home's oldest resident, Mabel has held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that could kill if in the wrong hands.

But history won't stay hidden forever and someone is onto them both. Watching and listening from room number six, they'll stop at nothing to find out the truth.

With a past this dark, is anyone as innocent as they seem?

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! 

It's been a few days since I read this and I am still completely blown away by it. 

Every spare second I had, I was reaching for this and reading more and more.  

As a massive fan of this author I had picked up this book without even giving the blurb a glance, so was a bit surprised that is had so much history in it.  I tend to avoid books with history, but I know that when I'm  in the safe hands of an epic storyteller  such as Jane Corry, that I will be transported and taken along with whatever is written. 

Which was thankfully the case.  I was as addicted to Mabel's story as a child during the Blitz and the following years, as I was by Belinda who accidentally murdered her husband and her time spent in prison. 

I actually loved both storylines equally, and loved how the characters came together in the present day along with the mysterious stranger in room six, who we get occasional chapters from, adding a slightly more sinister tone to the book. 

This is just an epically impressive book, that I couldn't get enough of.  Another amazing story from an auto read author for me. 

Thank you to Penguin and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.