William Morrow
January 2017
On Sale: January 1, 2017
352 pages ISBN: 0062427024 EAN: 9780062427021 Kindle: B01EFLYHF8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thrillerβas tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Darkβinvolving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
The danger isnβt 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 Corbinβs 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 ownβcuriosity that intensifies when she meets Alan Cherney, a handsome, quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the apartment facing Audreyβs. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from Audreyβs place, yet heβs denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man claiming to be the dead womanβs 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 apartmentβand 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 isnβt 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 sheβs just met?
Yet the danger Kate imagines isnβt nearly as twisted and deadly as whatβs 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 Swansonβs 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.