The Perfect Stranger is Megan Miranda's follow up to All the Missing Girls . I read and reviewed All the Missing Girls back in January. The Perfect Stranger differs in structure to All the Missing Girls which largely unspooled its story backwards. While The Perfect Stranger follows a more traditional story structure, it is no less gripping. After Leah Stevens torches her career in Boston in pursuit of the truth, a seemingly chance encounter with her former, post-college roommate, Emmy Grey, spurs the two women to move to western Pennsylvania. Both women are in search of a fresh start and while Leah finds hers as a high school English teacher, Emmy flounders in nameless, nondescript, dead end jobs. When a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Leah is found left for dead on the shores of the nearby lake, Leah soon realizes that her roommate has been missing for an undetermined length of time. And Leah realizes that it is the beginnin...
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