I received a copy of A STRANGER ON THE BEACH on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the publisher and author for the opportunity.

FIVE STARS! And here’s why:

Michele Campbell blew me away! Total book hangover. The story captivated my interest from the very first page, through a series of twists I didn’t see coming, to the very end. It has all the elements of a great thriller: family drama, multiple points of view, and a story shrouded in mystery. Every time I thought I knew what was going on, the author sent the reader on another twist and the rollercoaster ride was hard to get off. I kept reading and reading and reading! It’s hard to discuss the plot without giving too much away, but I’ll leave you with one thought. Unreliable narrators. WOW. The whole premise blew my mind. And, it’s been a whole week and I’m still thinking about this book. Highly recommend. A STRANGER ON THE BEACH does not disappoint.

I absolutely love Michele Campbell! Her books just keep getting better!

In A Stranger on the Beach you better watch out who you trust. You never truly know a person.

What a ride this was! Chapters kept going from Caroline or Aidan point of view and man the chapters were so different. I didn’t know what was happening. I had quite a few jaw dropping instances.
Could not put this book down and what an ending.
Great book, well written, highly recommend.
Thank you Netgalley, St-Martin’s Press and Michele Campbell. 5 stars.

From the moment he spotted her on the beach, a deep infatuation settled in, and he knew instantly that he had to have her, no matter the cost. She was way out of his league, and he knew it, but when she stumbled into his bar one night, obviously looking for some comfort, he jumped at the chance to be the one to offer it to her. She gave herself to him easily, but then her soon-to-be ex husband came crashing back into her world, and she immediately tossed him aside. But he doesn't plan to let her walk away so easily... he's gotten a taste of her life, and he wants more!

Caroline thought she had everything, a beautiful home, happy marriage, and a blossoming new business, but she couldn't have been more wrong. In an instant she loses everything, one unsettling phone call from her husband and she learns that he has been keeping secrets, ones that threaten to take everything she loves away... but she isn't giving up her privileged life without a fight. With her marriage unraveling she turns to a stranger for comfort and winds up getting herself trapped in a deadly little love triangle!

A Stranger on the Beach will lure you in from the very first page, and have you completely addicted by the next... WOW what a read! The story that lies between the pages of this one is certain to thrill, every page is riddled heart-pounding action, drama, gripping emotion, and a few unexpected turns that will leave your mind in shambles. This is my first encounter with this author's work and I have to say she did not disappoint, her perfectly designed tale left me rattled in the best possible way! Highly recommend you get your hands on this one, it's a can't miss thriller that is certain to have you dangling helplessly from the edge of your seat the whole way through!

I requested an advanced copy of this title from NetGalley, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.

Several points of view, who's telling the truth?

Caroline Stark, a forty-something year old mother of one is in her dream home alone. Her daughter, Hannah, is in college, leaving Caroline and Jason empty nesters. Caroline is trying to get her interior design career back in gear, while Jason is an investment banker.

Caroline notices a man gawking at her home several times, and while out for a run encounters him. They introduce themselves to one another, and that's the night, Caroline's marriage is about to change; after twenty years. She informs Jason that she is throwing a party to combine Jason's birthday and showing off the new house. Except Jason, informs her that he can't make it because he's stuck in Cleveland. Caroline knew he was lying.

Aidan Callahan is the local bartender, whose brother is the Chief of Police. Aidan got into some trouble, and his brother Tommy, watches out for him, trying to help him including finding him the bartending job. The town people view Aidan with suspicion, and Aidan is always dreaming of a better life.

Caroline out of despair finds herself in the same bar that Aidan works. They flirt, and Caroline has a bit too much to drink. Aidan takes her home in her vehicle and ends up spending the night. Caroline pours her heart out about her broken marriage, telling Aidan, that her husband took all the money. Then Aidan told Caroline that he'd help her get her money back.

From there, the story evolves into Caroline's version of what is happening, then switches to Aidan's version of what is happening as the story plays out. Both believable, and the story kept me glued to the book to find out what would happen next. This was an original, suspenseful, full of twists that kept me guessing read!

I received an ARC from NetGalley via St. Martin's Press in exchange for my honest review.

A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell will be a fabulous beach read this summer. Caroline has built a life that she loves with her husband, and daughter, or so she thinks! They have just built a house overlooking the beach when her life seems to fall apart. One day she notices a man staring up at her beach house, and from there the story unfolds. Told in alternating perspectives from the man on the beach, Aiden, and Caroline this book will leave you guessing until the very end. Who’s telling the truth about the events that occur and who can you really trust?

I received a copy of A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell from St. Martin's Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

I give this book 4 stars. A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell was overall well written with a solid story line, but it was predictable for me. If you love a good psychological twisted thriller, I definitely recommend this book!

Michele Campbell's book A Stranger on the Beach is a homerun...she tells a story of Caroline and Aiden and what happens when they meet..It is told alternating between Caroline and Aiden and their perspective on events....she has you as the reader changing and questioning every thing you thought was true...all comes to a head " after the storm "...there are a lot of good supporting characters as well....looking forward to the next book...Michele keeps getting better with each book...
Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read this book...

Caroline and her husband just bought a beautiful new beach house, but get in a major fight before being able to enjoy it. She is pretty sure he's having some sort of affair. One day on the beach, she sees a young man watching her home. Not sure if he's a robber, homeless, crazy, she goes out and talks to him. With her marriage hitting rock bottom, Caroline ends up having a one night stand with the stranger, Aiden. It turns out he might've thought more of it than she did, and is eager to stay in her life and be with her forever, at all costs.

The book started out strong, but it was a little difficult to get into with each chapter basically discussing the same situation that was discussed in the previous chapter, but from a different point of view. My interest was held until maybe the 80% mark, where I then started feeling like the story just kept rolling on. I do have to say that I really didn't expect some of the twists, so that was nice. Author Michele Campbell is a great, atmospheric writer, making fully fleshed-out characters. I would be interested in reading more from her. This was a good book, just a bit hard to get into and stay into.

Thank you to NetGalley, Michelle Campbell, and St. Martin's Press for an ARC.

Michelle Campbell has become one of my favorite authors in the suspense genre. Her stories and plot twists are getting better with each novel she releases. Stranger on the Beach is a spine-tingler that keeps you in suspense until the very end. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put this book down, making this book a great vacation read – but not ideal if you are actually supposed to be working. Oh well – that’s the price to pay for reading one of Michelle Campbell’s thrillers!

Stranger on the Beach is the story of Aiden, a handsome bartender who’s ended up on the wrong side of the law, and Caroline Stark, a wealthy socialite whose marriage appears to be on the rocks. The story is told from alternating perspectives, but each person’s reality conflicts with the others. So who is telling the truth? Or is someone crazy? The style of writing is so creative, that I don’t want to give any more spoilers. Just read it for yourself, on the beach, while on the look out for handsome strangers!

Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martin's Press, and Michelle Campbell for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.
I wasn't sure how i felt about this at first. I struggle with books where a woman is mistreated and I originally thought that was happening in this book, but boy was I wrong. A Stranger on the Beach is told by Caroline, a wealthy woman with a gorgeous beach house and Aidan, a townie who she meets eyeing her beach house who also works in the town's bar. While hosting a fancy party in her new beach house, Caroline's husband, Jason Stark, comes in with a Russian woman who everyone assumes is his mistress. He tells her to file divorce and he'll let her have everything, but she stalls and suddenly he's taken all of the money out of their accounts. In her despair she goes to the local bar where she meets Aidan, gets drunk and lets him take her home. He tells her he's in love with her, but from her point of view he's stalking her and her family.
Aidan wakes up one morning in his truck and is being arrested for the murder of Caroline's husband. He's covered in blood, but has no recollection of the night before. Did he murder Jason Stark?
This book kept me engaged and guessing the whole time. I never knew whether I should trust Caroline or Aidan's accounts of what was going on. I ended up really enjoying this. You should definitely grab a copy on July 23rd when it is released.
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REVIEW: A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Caroline finally has the beach house of her dreams. She’s put all the final touches on her immaculate and perfectly decorated weekend home and is ready to show it off at a house-warming party, but that’s the night her life as she knows it flies off the rails.
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Told first from Caroline’s point of view, minutes later we’ll see the same situation unfold through her lover, Aidan’s eyes. This twisty and manipulative tale will have you second-guessing everything and switching sides until the very end. This wild ride of a story is truly all about perspective and I loved every crazy and unpredictable second of it!.

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I am now officially a Michele Campbell fan. This book is absolutely insane and I love it! If you’re into stories with unreliable narrators and you like not having a clue what’s happening or who to believe, then this is for you. It all starts with a bombshell in a marriage and a subsequent “one night stand”... and everything (and everyone) just goes nuts from there. So. Good.

I am a suspense nut and the last couple of novels I have read that were supposedly suspense novels were such let downs. But, finally, I read A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell and it was every bit a suspenseful novel! A really “who done it!” As the reader, I didn’t know what was real or not. All I knew was someone was lying and was crazy. I couldn’t wait to finish that it consumed me for days! Great read and I will be definitely reading Michele Campbell’s other books.

I had to stay up extra late to finish A Stranger on the Beach. A creepy read about Caroline who is having marriage trouble when she meets the "stranger" Aiden. Aiden seems like a friendly young man who is trying to escape from a tainted past, but is he all that he seems? The back and forth between Caroline and Aiden keeps the reader on their toes the entire book!

A thank you to NetGalley & St. Martin's Press, who loaned me an early copy in exchange for a review.

This was an interesting book... The premise was fascinating -- lady finds a man who is watching her house, she assumes casing it. Ends up meeting a man, falling into bed with the man during a vodka-induced stupor, man becomes obsessed, craziness ensues.

I definitely found myself scared of one of the characters and sympathizing with the main character. The ending's "twist" was pretty well done & I appreciated that. At times the back & forth with the POV's really confused me though & I had a bit of a hard time keeping up. In the end, it all made better sense, but during it was quite confusing.

I struggled at the beginning of this book, until I realized that the two main characters were speaking from different perspectives! Once I got to about the halfway mark, everything clicked and I was hooked! I stayed up super late just wanting to finish the story! Just when I thought I knew what was going to happen, something came along that made me question my theories and proved me wrong! This was a great book!

A Stranger on the Beach is my first book by Michele Campbell and it won't be my last! This thriller was fast paced and very suspenseful. Once I thought I knew what was going to happen, another twist followed. It kept me guessing all the way to the end of the book.

The story is told from alternating perspectives between Caroline and Aidan, both describing their side of what happened. Caroline seems to have it all, a successful husband, a daughter, an apartment in the city, and they just built a house on the beach. On the night of their house warming party, her husband brings another woman to the party. She confronts him but she doesn't believe a word he says. She ends up going to a local bar for comfort from a stranger and ends up meeting Aidan. They have a one night stand that she regrets in the morning. She wants to move on from it and forget all about Aidan but he has other plans. He becomes obsessed with her. She is dealing with her husband who she believes is keeping secrets and now a man that has become obsessed with her, her family, and her house on the beach. I don't want to say too much more and spoil it but this story has a lot of twists and it will be hard to put down. I'd honestly love to see this book become a movie! I give it 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Remember to add this to your TBR listfor when it comes out on July 23rd!

I want to thank Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me an e-Arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Caroline seems to have it all. A lavish beach house, a doting husband, a daughter in university, and lots of money. What else could she possibly want? She is the envy of everyone and seems to have the perfect life. One day Caroline sees a man standing on the beach, a stranger that seems to be watching her property. Why would this man be standing there staring at her house?

Caroline throws a lavish party at her beach house, only for her husband to call and tell her something with work has come up and he unfortunately will not be able to make it home in time for the party. Caroline is upset. What could be more important than attending his own party with his wife, and their family and friends? Later on at the party, Caroline finds out that he husband has made a brief appearance with another woman. Caroline is furious and confronts him and this mystery woman. Who is this strange woman and why would she show up with her husband? Confused and hurt, Caroline doesn’t know what to think.

I loved the dark and twisty mystery of this book, and the way it kept you on your toes and at the edge of your seat as the book takes you on a wild ride right through to the very shocking ending of this book! And wow, what a ride it was! There is so much deceit, lies and betrayal, it was hard to figure out who was actually telling the truth. There are so many unreliable characters in this book that it makes for a fabulous book! Who is telling the truth? Are they all just as crazy as the next person, or are there actual victims here?

There were times I felt sorry for Caroline, then for her husband, then for Aiden. As the story unfolds, I wasn’t sure who to feel sorry for, and I loved that about this book. Just when you think you have it all figured out you find out you were wrong.

This book will definitely not disappoint! A great read that was addictive from the very beginning!

Did Caroline meet him for the first time the day before her big party that he bartended at where everything in Caroline's life fell apart? Or did Caroline know Aiden prior to their encounter on the beach and knowingly lead him on despite being married? Their story plays out through the novel mainly being told from Caroline's viewpoint interspersed with Aiden's view along with a few others. Many twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end.

Personally for me I found it a smidge predictable and the ending went somewhat off the rails. I was still entertained and it was a quick read. Just not my favorite of the thriller-ish genre. Still worth reading though!

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an eARC copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.