The Other Half by Hayley Perry
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Forty, unintentionally single, and living with a cat who offers very little practical support.
Harriet Hoxley’s life hasn’t exactly gone to plan. Her fiancé has buggered off to America, leaving her with a guilt cheque she refuses to open, nowhere sensible to put her throw pillows, and a rapidly developing relationship with home delivery.
Determined to avoid the world, Harriet takes a night job at Hawthorn House—a grand, crumbling residential home with an incontinent sofa, a temperamental boiler, and a handful of residents who have absolutely no intention of growing old gracefully. She’s hoping for a quiet life, or at least a shift that doesn’t involve scrubbing toilets with garden sticks.
Then a formidable, feisty resident named Mrs. Fitz mysteriously disappears in the middle of the night.
Armed with a budget walkie-talkie and a group of coworkers whose grasp of the law is entirely theoretical, Harriet launches an investigation. But with a corporate liaison breathing down her neck and a ticking clock to find Mrs. Fitz before it’s too late, Harriet realizes she is spectacularly unqualified to solve this alone—even if her most likely ally is the last person she ever expected to trust.
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