Watch Your Back
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- Expected Dec 24, 2024
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter, a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling after a series of deadly accidents, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks, and Megan Miranda.
Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences—like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his collision shop after another car ran her off the road.
After a whirlwind courtship, Nathan and Eve have settled into domestic life. They have a lovely home on a quiet street, a beautiful baby girl, and even the perfect babysitter to care for her. And yet, something isn’t quite right.
The stress in Eva’s life is mounting, both professionally and personally. Though the clinic where she works has been remodeled since its notorious days as an institution for the criminally insane, she feels increasingly uneasy there. And in her own neighborhood, a break-in at a nearby empty house hasn't helped, either.
Detective Rita Myers hasn’t yet figured out whether Eve is a target or a suspect, but every disturbing discovery in this usually peaceful neighborhood seems to revolve around her. Only as a deadly ice storm crashes through does it become clear just how far from perfect Eve and Nathan’s lives really are. And as the cracks in the surface come to light, so do the sinister secrets that lie beneath . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Parlato's implausible latest (after What Waits in the Woods), a married couple's relationship dissolves after their daughter disappears. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer has been tapped to lead the medical staff at a new psychiatric center in the Boston suburb of Graybridge, leaving her little time to help her husband, Nathan, with their infant daughter, Rosewyn. As a result, Eve and Nathan have come to depend on their kindly neighbor as a primary babysitter. One night, someone breaks into the couple's house and kidnaps Rosewyn, and the fallout exposes cracks in Eve and Nathan's relationship. Friends and relatives offer the couple unsolicited advice, much of it leading Eve and Nathan to suspect the worst in each other. Meanwhile, detective Rita Myers of the Graybridge PD takes charge of the case and uncovers a bizarre campaign to target and humiliate the couple. Parlato smartly splits the novel into chapters narrated by Eve, Nathan, and Rita, using each perspective switch to cast things in a new light. By the time the finale arrives, however, readers will be frustrated with how many contrivances it took to get there. This fails to stick the landing.
