The
author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth
Killing returns with
an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as
tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving
a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and
murder.
The danger isn’t all in
your head . . .
Growing up, Kate Priddy was always
a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full
blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her
life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, suggests the two
temporarily swap apartments, Kate, an art student in London, agrees, hoping
that time away in a new place will help her overcome the recent wreckage of her
life.
But soon after her arrival at
Corbin’s grand apartment on Beacon Hill, Kate makes a shocking discovery: his
next-door neighbor, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered.
When the police question her about Corbin, a shaken Kate has few answers, and
many questions of her own—curiosity that intensifies when she meets Alan
Cherney, a handsome, quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the
apartment facing Audrey’s. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from
Audrey’s place, yet he’s denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man
claiming to be the dead woman’s old boyfriend, who insists Corbin did the deed
the night that he left for London.
When she reaches out to her cousin,
he proclaims his innocence and calms her nerves . . . until she comes across
disturbing objects hidden in the apartment—and accidently learns that Corbin is
not where he says he is. Could Corbin be a killer? And what about Alan? Kate
finds herself drawn to this appealing man who seems so sincere, yet she isn’t
sure. Jetlagged and emotionally unstable, her imagination full of dark images
caused by the terror of her past, Kate can barely trust herself . . . So how
could she take the chance on a stranger she’s just met?
Yet the danger Kate imagines isn’t
nearly as twisted and deadly as what’s about to happen. When her every fear
becomes very real.
And much, much closer
than she thinks.
Told from multiple points of view, Her Every Fear is a scintillating, edgy novel rich with
Peter Swanson’s chilling insight into the darkest corners of the human psyche
and virtuosic skill for plotting that has propelled him to the highest ranks of
suspense, in the tradition of such greats as Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins,
Patricia Highsmith, and James M. Cain.
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About the author:
Peter
Swanson is the author of three novels: The Girl With a Clock For a
Heart, an LA Times Book Award finalist; The Kind Worth Killing,
winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian
Fleming Steel Dagger; and his most recent, Her Every Fear. His
books have been translated into 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and
features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The
Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The
Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.
A graduate of Trinity College, the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives in Somerville,
Massachusetts with his wife and cat.
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