An NPR Best Book of the Year
The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with
an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller--as
tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until
Dark--involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal,
manipulation, and murder.
The danger isn't 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 Corbin's 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
own--curiosity that intensifies when she meets Alan Cherney, a handsome,
quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the apartment facing
Audrey's. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from Audrey's
place, yet he's denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man
claiming to be the dead woman's 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
apartment--and 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 isn't 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 she's just met?
Yet the danger Kate imagines isn't nearly as twisted and deadly as
what's 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 Swanson's 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.
