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.
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.
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