Kate Priddy comes from London, England and has made an arrangement to switch apartments with a cousin in the city Boston, MA. His name is Corbin Dell and he offers this temporary arrangement to help them both. Kate is an art student and Boston would be perfect for her to spend some time studying her craft. The relocation will also help her recover from a horrific experience where her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly killed her. Ever since that event, she has suffered almost debilitating panic attacks. She hopes the move will help her get past her ongoing emotional issues.

That might not be meant to happen for Kate, though. When she arrives at Corbin's elaborate Boston apartment, it is to the news that the woman who lived next door to Corbin has been murdered. That is just what Kate needs to calm her shattered nerves. She chooses to fight her panic and bulldoze her way through the experience and forge ahead. That all works out in theory but she begins to feel as if there are strange things going on around her. As these things accelerate, Kate realizes that she knows next to nothing about Corbin and then she discovers that he really is not where he says he is when she communicates with him. He tells her that he is in her London flat but, it turns out that he was only there for a short time.

With everything going on around her, Kate is having trouble staying focused, which gives her problems with being able to relax in her new environment. Finally, Kate decides that she has to know what is really happening in her new home, but that might just be the worst, most dangerous decision she could make.

HER EVERY FEAR is the perfect book for fans of Alfred Hitchcock as the plot flows much like many of Hitchcockian movies. Peter Swanson is a name already known in several reading circles and this new entry will not disappoint. In fact, it may be the perfect way to introduce new readers to Swanson's writing. Even though HER EVERY FEAR begins in a reasonable manner, the mysteries and chills grow stronger as the story goes on.

Peter Swanson creates his various storylines with just the right amount of believability and creepiness. HER EVERY FEAR charts Kate's every action throughout the book as well as her emotional response to things she does not understand. As a reader, I was hooked and I doubt very much that you will not feel the same well before the final page.