THE CLOSE UP is about Zoe Ann Weiss, a novelist down on her luck in LA – once the hottest new thing, now she’s desperate to get back on top. When she runs into an old flame, who’s now a famous actor, it feels like the stars have realigned in her favor, but Zoe’s about to find out that when it comes to fame, it’s more a case of being careful of what you wish for. There’s a dark side to everyone knowing your name - including the stalker who’s now tracking Zoe’s every step.
T – TWISTY
H – HEART PUMPING
E – ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
C – CLUES
L – LOVE/LUST
O – OBSESSION
S – SELF-DESTRUCTION
E – EERIE
U – UNEXPECTED
P – PRESS
A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel.
When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she's falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel, a thriller, fails. And she has writer's block worse than ever before. Now, three years later, Zach is famous and Zoe is...not.
She's facing her thirtieth birthday, a dead-end job at a flower shop, and a demanding agent, terrified she'll never get her life back on track. But when she goes to make a flower delivery and Zach is at the address, it's like no time has passed at all. They start casually dating in secret, her writer's block disappears, and Zoe begins to wonder: Zach inspired her first novel, so why can't he inspire her second?
But then the inevitable happens and photos are leaked, landing Zoe in the press. Her first novel goes viral, and now everyone seems to know her name. Except the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name-including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe's book, step by step, against her...
Thriller Crime | Thriller Psychological [Gallery Books, On Sale: December 3, 2024, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9781668037928 / eISBN: 9781668037942]
Pip Drysdale is a writer, actor, and musician who grew up in Africa and Australia. At 20 she moved to New York to study acting, worked in indie films and off-off-Broadway theatre, started writing songs and made four records. After graduating with a BA in English, Pip moved to London where she dated some interesting men and played shows across Europe. Her first novel, The Sunday Girl, was a best seller. The Strangers We Know is her next book and she is working on a third.
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