Catching a killer is dangerousβespecially if he lives next door
From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder . . .
Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, sheβs found some stability and peace.
But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husbandβs office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because sheβs long had a fascination with this unsolved murderβan obsession she doesnβt talk about anymore, but canβt fully shake either.
Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate?
The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects heβs planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows sheβs been watching him, that sheβs really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .
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