The Quiet Tenant is a story of a beloved man in the community and the deep dark secret that he has hidden. The community and those closest to him may see a generous and lovable man, but behind doors closed-- even to his daughter-- he is someone else entirely. Aidan is a secretly dark and troubled man, a serial kidnapper, rapist, and murderer with one victim locked away from the world. The Quiet Tenant is told from the perspectives of the three women closest to him, his daughter, one of his victims, and Emily, a girl who has taken a liking to him. After Aidan's wife dies and his in-laws decide to sell the house from under him and his daughter, Celia, they move into a new home. The only problem, Aidan has a woman locked in the shed out back. After creating a story, "Rachel", the woman in the shed, becomes the woman in the house that Aidan is "letting stay" because she needs help. We learn a lot about Rachel, Emily, and Celia and watch as Rachel proves that she is not a victim, she is a survivor.

Typically, point-of-view changes to not work well and I have not read many that include both first- and second-person perspectives but Michallon did a great job of executing these perspectives. This was a great novel that I definitely recommend. Props to Michallon for writing a novel in English which is not her first language!