New Couple In 5B

Rosie and Chad Lowan are broke, ambitious and newly married when an unexpected inheritance hands them an apartment in the Windermere, a storied Manhattan building far beyond anything they could afford. Rosie, a true-crime writer, knows the building's reputation: it has a long record of deaths, and its most notorious resident is still remembered.

As the couple settle into 5B, the doorman watches them a little too closely, the neighbours are a little too interested, and Rosie starts to suspect that her own marriage holds the thing she should be most afraid of.

Lisa Unger builds the novel around an unreliable narrator and a building with a memory, turning a story about wanting a better life into one about what people will overlook to keep it.