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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"A dead-serious thriller (with a funny bone)" (The New York Times Book Review), from the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, comes the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past.
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband's body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It's not the first time.

She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive's eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy??and dangerous??alliance is born.

It's almost impossible to live off the grid in the twenty-first century, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret. From heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, we are left to wonder...can she possibly outrun her past?

The Passenger's white-knuckled plot and unforeseeable twists make one thing for certain: the ride will leave you breathless. "When the answers finally come, they are juicy, complex, and unexpected. The satisfying conclusion will leave readers rethinking everything and immediately turning back to the first page to start again. Psychological suspense lovers will tear through this thriller" (Library Journal, starred re
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The Passenger por Lisa Lutz

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KIRKUS REVIEWWith her latest books, Lutz is deep in thriller territory, and she writes like she?s happy to be there.Best known for her wry series of mysteries starring the San Francisco?based Spellman family (imagine if Seymour Glass and his parents and siblings opened a private investigation service), last year Lutz veered toward straight fiction with How to Start a Fire, a richly plotted tale of the relationships among four college friends. In this new book, the protagonist, who's known as Tanya when we meet her, comes home to a dead husband (not her fault, really, he fell down the stairs) and decides her best option is to run. Different names see her through different lives, though she's always trying to escape both Tanya and an identity even further back in her past, which is cleverly revealed through a series of emails with someone who really knew, and loved, her. Meanwhile, in order to secure a new identity after Tanya is wanted in connection with her husband?s death, she calls on a man who was involved in that past. He sends some money, a new birth certificate, and a couple of thugs to kill her. Complicating things further is a woman she meets called Blue, who's also on the run but seems to have something on our protagonist. Lutz?s pacing is excellent, and the interior monologue captures what it would be like not to have a name or, even worse, a valid ID.Lutz provides some great suggestions for going on the lam (a lot of hair dye and car switching is involved), but at its core, this is a novel about identity: a slippery notion which depends upon both how the world sees us and how we see ourselves.Pub Date: March 1st, 2016ISBN: 978-1-4516-8663-0Page count: 320ppPublisher: Simon & SchusterReview Posted Online: Dec. 22nd, 2015Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1st, 2016 More Fiction & Literature >More Thrillers >MORE BY LISA LUTZ
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
(2016) Very good book about a woman who has been on the run for a decade. We don't even know who she really is until the last 30 pages when it is revealed that she was falsely accused of vehicular homicide that killed her best friend and boyfriend by ramming their car and forcing it off of a bridge. This book caught my attention from the first sentence and paragraph. KIRKUS REVIEWWith her latest books, Lutz is deep in thriller territory, and she writes like she's happy to be there.Best known for her wry series of mysteries starring the San Francisco?based Spellman family (imagine if Seymour Glass and his parents and siblings opened a private investigation service), last year Lutz veered toward straight fiction with How to Start a Fire, a richly plotted tale of the relationships among four college friends. In this new book, the protagonist, who's known as Tanya when we meet her, comes home to a dead husband (not her fault, really, he fell down the stairs) and decides her best option is to run. Different names see her through different lives, though she's always trying to escape both Tanya and an identity even further back in her past, which is cleverly revealed through a series of emails with someone who really knew, and loved, her. Meanwhile, in order to secure a new identity after Tanya is wanted in connection with her husband's death, she calls on a man who was involved in that past. He sends some money, a new birth certificate, and a couple of thugs to kill her. Complicating things further is a woman she meets called Blue, who's also on the run but seems to have something on our protagonist. Lutz's pacing is excellent, and the interior monologue captures what it would be like not to have a name or, even worse, a valid ID.Lutz provides some great suggestions for going on the lam (a lot of hair dye and car switching is involved), but at its core, this is a novel about identity: a slippery notion which depends upon both how the world sees us and how we see ourselves.Pub Date: March 1st, 2016ISBN: 978-1-4516-8663-0Page count: 320ppPublisher: Simon & SchusterReview Posted Online: Dec. 22nd, 2015Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1st, 2016
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
I was impressed with this book. I have read Lisa's Spellman File books which were hilarious. This is quite a change in genre for her. This twisty book kept me guessing the entire time & I liked the whole changing identity to escape the crime. Can you find a friend that would kill for you? A little abused woman vs society take in some areas. ( )
  LaneyLegz | Jul 29, 2023 |
Very clever story….thoroughly enjoyed this book! ( )
  JosephKing6602 | Jan 4, 2023 |
Loved everything about this book.

Usually, I find myself bored in long chapters of some books, looking ahead to see how much longer before the chapter is over. None of that here. This book grabbed my attention and held it - throughout!

With a few laugh-out-loud moments, the story is told in such a way that you never get bored.

One of my fav reads. ( )
  BookGirlBrown | Dec 30, 2022 |
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**** 4 out of 5 Stars
Review by: Mark Palm

Nowhere Woman...

There are a thousand and one reasons for reading fiction, but I often think that one of the most common ones is the chance to put ourselves in someone else’s place, and to see how the world looks from there. What would it be like to be a hero, or a villain? How would life look if I were walking in another’s shoes? A lot of folks do it to escape, but it is equally interesting to put ourselves in a place that we would never ever want to be. Reading The Passenger by Lisa Lutz is a novel that does just that; it gives us a tale about a woman who is Any Woman, or Everywoman, and, rather than being a dream, it’s a nightmare. It’s fun to be another person by choice, but when the decision is forced upon you, it’s a curse.

The book starts with Tanya Dubois discovering that her older husband Frank has fallen down the stairs and died. Rather than calling an ambulance or the police she cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair and calls someone on the phone tells them she needs a new identity. For reasons that are slowly revealed throughout the book, Tanya doesn't want to deal with the Police. She flees to Texas where she meets and is befriended by a female bartender named Blue. Blue senses that Tanya-now Amelia is on the run, and asks her to move in with her. When two men try to abduct them Blue unveils a rather frightening set of skills that enable the two women to escape but binds them together as they have to cover up some very serious crimes. The two then separate after an ingenious identity swap and Tanya-now Debra travels to Wyoming to work as a teacher.
Meanwhile, about a quarter of the way into the novel Ms. Lutz introduces an epistolic narrative that consists of a series of emails between “Ryan” a love interest that Tanya left after some catastrophe, and “Jo”, which is apparently Tanya’s real name.

In Wyoming Debra begins to live a somewhat normal life until she befriends a man in a bar named Domenic, which sets off a whole new set of problems that ends with her leaving town and finding a new identity, Emma. (Jo spends an inordinate amount of time drinking in bars, but if I had her life I think I would too.)

Now The Passenger is a seriously twisty thriller, and Ms. Lutz does an excellent job of keeping us off balance, and I wish that I could go into more depth about the plot, but I refuse to drop spoilers, so you’ll have to take my word for it when I tell you that this novel is relentless in it’s pace and the level of tension that Ms. Lutz generates made me sure that I never, ever want to have to life with an assumed identity.

While Blue is a fascinating character, most of the other people in this book have very little substance, but Ms. Lutz makes this book resonate by keeping the focus tightly on the psychological and physical problems of her protagonist. Jo’s life becomes more desperate as her past begins to catch up with her and the level of fear and anxiety she faces on a daily basis makes this book almost unbearably suspenseful. Ms Lutz has a comprehensive grasp of the difficulties that anyone, but particularly a woman, would face in trying to live a life of the grid in our electronic age where identity is paramount. The stress of living a life without using your real name or social security number, of hiding from cameras and the internet are bad enough, but when you have to cover up crimes and fear for your safety, the fear just begins to become overwhelming, and Ms. Lutz brings it all to life with a vividness that makes The Passenger a grueling but compulsively readable thriller.

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"A dead-serious thriller (with a funny bone)" (The New York Times Book Review), from the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, comes the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past.
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband's body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It's not the first time.

She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive's eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy??and dangerous??alliance is born.

It's almost impossible to live off the grid in the twenty-first century, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret. From heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, we are left to wonder...can she possibly outrun her past?

The Passenger's white-knuckled plot and unforeseeable twists make one thing for certain: the ride will leave you breathless. "When the answers finally come, they are juicy, complex, and unexpected. The satisfying conclusion will leave readers rethinking everything and immediately turning back to the first page to start again. Psychological suspense lovers will tear through this thriller" (Library Journal, starred re

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