Watch Us Fall
A Novel
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- ¥1,900
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By the author of The Cutaway, a work of psychological suspense set in the days leading up to and following the mysterious death of one of Washington, DC’s hottest investigative reporters.
Lucy and her three best friends share a glamorous but decaying house in the heart of Georgetown. They call themselves “the Sweeties” and live an idyllic post-grad lifestyle complete with exciting jobs, dramatic love lives, and, most importantly, each other.
But when Addie, the group’s queen bee, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Josh has gone missing, the Sweeties’ worlds are turned upside down. In the days leading up to his disappearance, Josh, a star investigative journalist from a prominent political family, was behaving erratically—and Lucy is determined to find out why. All four friends upend their lives to search for him, but detectives begin to suspect that the Sweeties might know more than they’re letting on.
As the investigation unfolds, Lucy’s obsession with the case reaches a boiling point, and with it, her own troubling secrets begin bubbling to the surface of her carefully curated life. A thrilling account of the lies and delusions that lurk beneath cloistered groups of female friends and the sinister realities of celebrity, Watch Us Fall is a gripping mystery and an examination of the things we tell ourselves when we can’t face the truth.
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An investigative reporter's disappearance sets a young woman spiraling in this tempestuous psychological thriller from Kovac (The Cutaway). Domestic abuse survivor Lucy Ambrose is horrified when her roommate, Addie James, returns to their Georgetown row house bruised and bloodstained following her morning run. According to Addie, a man she initially mistook for her ex-boyfriend, Josh Egan, leaped out of a bush and grabbed her. She broke his nose and fled, but declines to report the incident and swears Lucy to secrecy. Later that night, however, D.C. police come calling: Josh failed to show up for work, and his condo concierge thought Addie might know where he was. After days pass with no sign of him, Lucy skips work to figure out what happened, despite fearing that the answers she seeks might lie uncomfortably close to home. Kovac intercuts Lucy's increasingly anxious first-person narration with third-person chapters chronicling Josh's preoccupations over the preceding months. Though the plot feels overstuffed and many of the characters are underdeveloped, brisk pacing and bountiful melodrama keep the pages turning. Paula Hawkins fans should take note.
