Her Every Fear
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3.8 • 59 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller
As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley
'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, Sunday Times bestselling author of I See You
Following a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend, Kate Priddy makes an uncharacteristically bold decision after her cousin, Corbin Dell, suggests a temporary apartment swap - and she moves from London to Boston.
But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police begin asking questions about Corbin's relationship with Audrey, and his neighbours come forward with their own suspicions, a shaken Kate has few answers, and many questions of her own.
Jetlagged and emotionally unstable, her imagination playing out her every fear, Kate can barely trust herself. so how can she trust any of the strangers she's just met?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We adored the seductive pace of Peter Swanson’s follow-up to the masterful The Kind Worth Killing (our iBooks Thriller of the Year in 2015). He unfurls the drama at a delicious pace, pulling us into the world of the traumatised Kate Priddy with such calm and precision we could barely stand the tension. Following a horrendous attack in London, Kate’s uprooted to her cousin Corbin’s luxe Boston apartment, but it soon becomes clear that trouble may have travelled across the Atlantic with her.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kate Priddy, the heroine of this unconvincing psychological thriller from Swanson (The Kind Worth Killing), who's still traumatized by a boyfriend turned stalker, impulsively agrees to swap her London flat with Corbin Dell, an American cousin she has never met. After a harrowing plane trip and a ride through Boston's Sumner Tunnel that prompts a panic attack, Kate arrives at Corbin's luxurious Beacon Hill apartment just before the discovery of a murder in the apartment next door. The body of book editor Audrey Marshall is marked with gruesome postmortem cuts, which prove to be similar to those of other victims in places where Corbin has lived. Kate begins to suspect that her cousin knows more about Audrey's murder than he claims. As a fragile Kate tries to hold herself together, another stalker targets her. The characters, especially the female ones, rarely make rational decisions, and Kate herself doesn't consistently react in the face of grave danger in the manner of someone suffering from crippling anxiety. Swanson fans will hope for a return to form next time.
