A woman in the bath hears something above the ceiling, watches the attic hatch swing down, and a masked figure drops through. Thirty seconds later she’s dead. Across town her estranged friend Julia sees a video online of a masked figure climbing out of an attic and realizes the footage was shot inside her own house — in a gated community built specifically to keep people out. Meanwhile her son has been saying every night that someone is up there. Mara is Irish and writes domestic thrillers that run on ordinary suburban logistics, which is what makes this one land at three in the morning.
Someone in the Attic