A Noise Downstairs/Linwood Barclay/356 pages

A Noise Downstairs is a murder mystery that keeps you guessing to the end.  Paul Davis is a college professor that witnesses a colleague, Kenneth, trying to bury the bodies of two murdered women.  Kenneth attacks Paul with a shovel before being caught by the police.  Kenneth is tried and convicted of killing the two women after he forced them to type a confession of adultery.  Fast forward eight months and Paul is battling PTSD while recovering from his severe head injury.  He is seeing a therapist to help him get on with his life.  His wife buys him an antique typewriter that Paul has always wanted.  Paul plans to use it to write about his experience.  However, he begins to hear the typewriter keys clacking in the middle of the night.  He finds messages written on the paper that he believes are from Kenneth's victims. With the help of his therapist, wife, and best friend Paul tries to discover what is happening.  There are a lot of twists and turns and a surprising event in the story.