Die Nachmieterin

The previous tenant vanished. Someone is still keeping her calendar.

After her divorce, Ella Corbin moves into a cheap prewar apartment in an unfamiliar city. Mail, calls and visitors still come for the woman who disappeared without a trace seven months ago — and on the kitchen wall hangs her calendar, still open to a day long past. To finally find some peace and make the apartment her own, Ella starts checking off the old appointments.

The next morning, next to the first crossed-out entry, there's a checkmark. In handwriting that isn't hers.

Ella is a forensic accountant; she has read numbers for as long as she can remember, and she's the only one who notices what no one else sees: the missing woman's account is still being used, month after month, always from the same building. The previous tenant never moved out. For months, someone has been keeping her life running — her mail, her money, her calendar — so that no one misses her. And the friendly neighbor upstairs, Ella's only anchor in this unfamiliar city, knows the apartment better than he should.

The closer Ella gets to the truth, the more she starts to sound like exactly what someone wants her to be: an overwhelmed, newly divorced woman imagining things. But a money trail leads her to the one place in the building no one wanted to check — before the new tenant becomes the next one to vanish.

A gripping psychological thriller about the familiar turning strange: an apartment where you're never quite alone, about trust, and one question — who confirms an appointment you only imagined making?