Review of The Passenger by Lisa Lutz--4 *

Title: The Passenger
Author: Lisa Lutz
Genre: Thriller/Suspense

Rating: * * * *

Publishers: Simon & Schuster

(Mar 1, 2016)

Hardback: 320  pages

ISBN: 9781451686630

FTC Disclosure: ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, Lisa Lutz’s latest blistering thriller is about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past: you’ll want to buckle up for the ride!
In case you were wondering, I didn’t do it. I didn’t have anything to do with Frank’s death. I don’t have an alibi, so you’ll have to take my word for it...
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.

As a lover of thrillers, this book drew me in from the beginning. The only reason I didn't give it five stars was I found it so improbable that someone could have lived off the grid for ten years in this day and time. The main character was pretty unlikeable and I can't say I had a whole lot of sympathy for her. The story had a lot of twists and turns to  keep the reader reading very late into the night to find what caused the original bolt from home.