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The New Couple in 5B

A Novel

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"Spine-tingling fun." —People
"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." —Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actress

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable 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.
Looking for more spine-tingling thrillers? Check out these other titles by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger:
  • Under My Skin
  • The Stranger Inside
  • Confessions on the 7:45
  • Last Girl Ghosted
  • Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

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      • Library Journal

        October 1, 2023

        At first, Rosie and Chad Lowan--The New Couple in 5B--couldn't be happier to have inherited an apartment from Chad's uncle in the fabled Windermere building in New York's Murray Hill area, but with the building's omnipresent cameras and a history of ugly crimes, they quickly learn that it was all too good to be true; the New York Times best-selling Unger gets a 150,000-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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      • Kirkus

        Starred review from February 1, 2024
        Although a surprise inheritance sounds like good luck, it turns out to be anything but in a tense, twisty thriller. New Yorkers Rosie and Chad Lowan have spent most of the first year of their marriage caring for his dying uncle Ivan. Rosie, the novel's engaging narrator, expects Ivan's long-estranged daughter, Dana, to inherit his dreamy Park Avenue apartment, so she's shocked to discover after his death that he's left it to her and Chad. It's a huge boon--Chad is an aspiring actor, and Rosie has published one bestselling true-crime book but is struggling to start a second, so money is always tight. The apartment in the elegant, century-old Windermere is not just a place to live but a multi-million-dollar asset. Dana, however, is not just surprised to be cut out of Ivan's will but furious. The couple's joy is marred not only by her rage but by odd goings-on in the building. At the behest of her editor and BFF, Max, Rosie focuses her next book on the Windermere's grisly history of residents who died in murders, suicides, and bizarre accidents. Does the building bear some sort of curse--and if so, is it all in the past? As first one person in Rosie's orbit and then another die, she becomes suspicious of people like the Windermere's longtime doorman, Abi, and the kindly old couple across the hall, Charles and Ella Aldridge, who have lived there for decades and take much interest in Rosie's efforts to get pregnant. And is Chad, a golden-haired charmer, as perfect as he seems? If all this reminds you of Rosemary's Baby, it's meant to--the book is salted with references to that classic melding of mystery and horror, and it vibrates with the same sense of escalating dread. But Unger builds her own fast-moving, creepy combination of thriller and horror in one of her best books yet. This propulsive, haunted thriller proves that competition for New York City real estate really can be deadly.

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