*Featured on Best of Lists in
Vogue
,
People
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, and more*
In this “wicked slow burn” (
) of psychological suspense from the author of
How Can I Help You
, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the
actress.
Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat.
As her fascination with her famous neighbor grows, the narrator’s hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she’s collecting cast-off items from the actress’s stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress’s husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning—and irrevocable—unraveling.
A riveting portrait of obsession,
Looker
is “a sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror” (
The Wall Street Journal
) and an immersive and darkly entertaining read—“by the end you’ll be gasping” (
).