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"Chilling psychological acuity...Part of the fun is figuring out how everything ties together in the end."—New York Times Book Review

"Absolutely splendid storytelling, a book to entertain, to immerse, and to challenge."—A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Bestselling author Wendy Walker returns with a new dark, twisty, and highly addictive psychological thriller about a cold case detective who finds herself the target of an obsessed stalker after saving his life.

Detective Elise Sutton is a forensics expert with a knack for solving cold cases and a deep knowledge of the criminal mind. She prides herself on being rational and in control, until a crisis at a department store leaves her steeped in guilt and self-doubt about whether she did the right thing to save a man's life.

Elise is hailed as a hero, but she doesn't feel like one. She soon grows numb, even to her husband and daughters, as she sets out to find the one man who might know the truth. When she finds him—or did he find her?—their connection sets off a terrifying game of cat and mouse, threatening Elise and the people she loves most.

Wendy Walker has crafted a brilliantly complicated, absorbing, and tension-filled psychological thriller with a shocking final twist that rivals The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient.

A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 24, 2023
      In this middling thriller from Walker (American Girl), Det. Elise Sutton is in a Connecticut department store when shots ring out. Near the dressing rooms, she spies an armed 20-something man taking aim at a tall, frightened man. Elise—a cold case investigator—kills the gunman before he can claim a single life, but despite being hailed as a hero, she’s wracked with guilt for doing so. The man she saved doesn’t give a statement, so Elise seeks him out and is relieved when his account vindicates her actions. She soon discovers, however, that the man started stalking her post-shooting, and nearly everything he told her was a lie, including his name. When he begins threatening Elise’s husband, police partner, and daughters, Elise realizes he won’t stop unless she makes him. Walker intercuts Elise’s first-person-present narration with chapters detailing an investigation into human remains found in a hunting shelter’s cremation oven, though the subplot feels awkwardly shoehorned in. And though Elise’s stalker is terrifying, her reactions to his escalations strain credibility, blunting the story’s impact. Walker has done much better. Agent: Elisabeth Weed, Book Group.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Gabra Zackman and Peter Ganim share the double first-person narration of Wendy Walker's new thriller in which Elise, a policewoman traumatized during a line-of-duty shooting, is stalked by a mysterious witness to the event. Meanwhile, her partner, Rowan, still recovering from wartime PTSD, is working the case from a different angle. We hear a great deal about stages of trauma recovery and what happens if you try to skip a stage or ignore therapeutic wisdom or lie to your psychiatrist. Some feels more like padding than plot or character development, or perhaps the text just needed a sharp red pencil, but the performances are smooth and accomplished, and Walker gets us where she wants to go without killing off anyone we've come to care about. B.G. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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