When Molly was a small child, her testimony in court put a man away for the death of her mother. Now decades older and recently divorced, Molly Wynters has returned to her hometown to care for her father. With her teenage son along for the ride, Molly has to come to terms with the fact that her father’s recent stroke has left him unable to communicate or clear up her suspicions that something was wrong with what she saw so long ago. Molly, now a trained therapist, volunteers for a local helpline. The calls start off normal, but soon become a series of threats. Is she being sought out for a mistake she made as a child?
Nicole Lundrigan’s A Man Downstairs questions what it means to come to terms with being wrong when those around you spent so long telling you that you’d done the right thing. In this book, there are very few characters that don’t leave you with an ick feeling, and that’s by design. Almost everyone Molly comes into contact with, makes the reader want desperately for her to flee the town and never come back. Molly is far from perfect, but it is her desire to find the true that keeps one reading until the very end.
A Man Downstairs is now available from Penguin Books.
