Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Couple in 5B

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released.

The Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Standalone, Adult, Thriller

eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 384 Pages

March 5, 2024 by Park Row Books

Blurb:

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.

Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade.

At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn’t feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there’s more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is the doorman ever-present? Why are there cameras everywhere? And why have so many gruesome crimes occurred there throughout the years? When one of the neighbors turns up dead, Rosie must get to the truth about the Windermere before she, too, falls under its dangerous spell.

Why I Want to Read This Book:

Like locked door mysteries, another one of my favorite thriller tropes are real estate inheritances with dark histories. I always love when characters inherit a home that seems too good for it to be true… for it to turn out to be exactly that. I’ve read one other book by this author and enjoyed it.

Will you be checking this one out? What books are you looking forward to?