How can they be sure you're not being paranoid, or manic, or obsessive?'- The Big Thrill Maybe worse than not being able to rely on yourself is that other people might not believe you. 'Woven into this twisty-turny murder thriller is mental illness and the instability it causes. A fun, chilling read.'- Manhattan Book Review This is a book that will keep you up at night and haunt your thoughts.

Another gem that pulls the reader in and never lets go, even as the story comes to a close.

'A wicked thriller that does not disappoint. For a fast-paced thriller, Before She Knew Him achieves an impressive significance in its pauses.'- BookPage 'There's a neat twist at the end, but the real surprise is the way characters are allowed to grieve their losses, a luxury not always allowed in stories of this type. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she's been watching him, that she's really on to him. The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he's planning something truly terrifying. Hen knows because she's long had a fascination with this unsolved murder-an obsession she doesn't talk about anymore, but can't fully shake either.Ĭould 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 sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago.

Finally, she's found some stability and peace.īut when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband's office shelf. 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. Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Catching a killer is dangerous-especially if he lives next doorįrom 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.

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