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"[A] well-told suspense story...refreshingly realistic."-- The New York Times Book Review
"Danger feels real in the brilliant I See You ...Mackintosh seems destined to do important work for many years to come."-- The Washington Post
"Mackintosh allots her characters the perfect amount of back story, allowing them to carry their own weight throughout the investigation. She also casts enough extras to keep readers guessing who could be behind these attacks...readers may find themselves wanting to reread this one."--Associated Press
"[A] deliciously creepy tale of urban paranoia."--Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
The author of the New York Times bestseller I Let You Go propels readers into a dark and claustrophobic thriller, in which a normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world...
Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her...
It all starts with a classified ad. During her commute home one night, while glancing through her local paper, Zoe sees her own face staring back at her; a grainy photo along with a phone number and a listing for a website called FindTheOne.com.
Other women begin appearing in the same ad, a different one every day, and Zoe realizes they've become the victims of increasingly violent crimes--including murder. With the help of a determined cop, she uncovers the ad's twisted purpose...A discovery that turns her paranoia into full-blown panic. Zoe is sure that someone close to her has set her up as the next target.
And now that man on the train--the one smiling at Zoe from across the car--could be more than just a friendly stranger. He could be someone who has deliberately chosen her and is ready to make his next move...
Author Notes
Clare Mackintosh is an award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author. She spent twelve years on the police force in England and has written for the Guardian , Good Housekeeping , and other publications. A columnist for Cotswold Life , she is the founder of Chipping Norton Literary Festival and lives in North Wales with her family. She is the author of I See You and I Let You Go .
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Zoe Walker leads a quiet life, commuting on the London metro to a dull job. One glimpse at her local paper sets her on edge. As Zoe struggles to figure out why she is seeing her photo on the lurid back pages of the daily news, she is pulled into what could be a much larger, more perilous operation. Other women's photos begin appearing in the paper, and as Zoe learns their identities, she discovers that the women are being murdered. Assigned to Zoe's case is PC Kelly Swift, who's hit rock bottom after assaulting a rape suspect. Dogged by a long-ago attack on her sister, the officer must prove her worth to the higher-ups, and Zoe's case may provide the perfect opportunity. With Kelly's help, Zoe draws closer to uncovering the shocking truth. The deft character development of this haunting, claustrophobic work sets it apart from more typical thrillers. Though Zoe appears to be an ordinary suburban mom, her relationships with her grown children and live-in boyfriend add depth. While Kelly is a more familiar character, her motivations, mistakes, and redemption make her compelling. VERDICT Fans of Harlan Coben's domestic suspense will enjoy this portrait of a woman facing inexplicably dangerous circumstances, and the technological components will please dedicated viewers of shows such as Mr. Robot.-Erinn Black Salge, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Divorced middle-aged mum Zoe Walker, the narrator of this outstanding psychological thriller from Mackintosh (I Let You Go), is stunned when, during her daily commute to work as bookkeeper/office manager at a London real estate firm, she spots a photo of herself in a newspaper ad for sex chat lines. But the real fear kicks in when she combs through earlier ads and recognizes one face as that of a recent crime victim. After another woman she recognizes from the ads is murdered, Zoe connects with police constable Kelly Swift, who's chafing under a disciplinary demotion. As Kelly and the task force she worms her way onto race to crack the baffling case, an increasingly terrified Zoe starts to turn a suspicious eye on just about everyone in her life, including her solicitous live-in boyfriend and her overbearing boss. Although some shocking final twists don't quite convince, Mackintosh scripts a hair-raising ride all the scarier because its premise-that our predictable routines make us easy targets-is sadly so plausible. Author tour. Agent: Sheila Crowley, Curtis Brown (U.K.). (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* While flipping through a newspaper during her morning commute, Zoe Walker spots herself featured in an obscure dating site's classified ad. After efforts to contact the site prove fruitless, she compulsively checks the ads and finds a new woman featured daily. Zoe begins researching the other photos in an effort to control her mounting paranoia and is horrified to find that women from the ads have been victimized in crimes from theft to murder. Only British Transit Authority constable Kelly Swift takes Zoe's fears seriously, but she comes with baggage. Ten years ago, Kelly's promising future as a Sexual Offenses Unit detective was scrapped after she attacked a prisoner. After hearing Zoe's concerns, Kelly calls in her last favor to secure assignment to the murder case, shunting aside fears that confronting her past will result in personal and professional destruction. Zoe's practicality lends gut-clenching credence to her distress, creating sharp contrast to Kelly's wavering stability, and the steadily thickening paranoia will leave readers questioning their comfortable routines. This follow-up to Mackintosh's debut, I Let You Go (2016), is a well-crafted blend of calculated malevolence, cunning plot twists, and redemption that will appeal to fans of Sophie Hannah, Ruth Rendell, and Ruth Ware.--Tran, Christine Copyright 2016 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
HATH NOT A SERIAL KILLER eyes? Hath not a serial killer hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick him, does he not bleed? If you tickle him, does he not laugh? Well, let's see what the wife of a serial killer has to say about that in JoAnn Chaney's WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW (Flatiron, $25.99). In this perverse first novel, the exploits of a murderer are viewed from three perspectives: that of his wife, who still loves him; that of a journalist, who made her career because of him; and that of a police detective, who is still obsessed with him. Gloria Seever never intended to share her life with a man who would murder 31 people and bury their remains in the crawl space under the house. She just wasn't very observant. And really, who'd ever suspect Jacky Seever, who likes to dress up as a clown and entertain hospital-bound children, of torturing and killing women in the garage? "When you were married you made things work" is how Gloria explains her blind devotion to her homicidal husband - and her determination to stay out of the garage. "She'd made a promise and she was going to keep it." Years later, when Seever is safely locked up, another killer seems to be paying homage to his work. So does one of the lead homicide detectives on the case. In trying to understand Seever's appeal to his imitator, Ralph Loren of the Denver Police Department adopts his fashion sense, hairstyle and mannerisms, which alters his looks but doesn't do much for his deductive skills. But while that plot turn leads down a blind alley, Chaney has more success with her other, striking characters. Sammie Peterson, who has been laid off from her newspaper, sells cosmetics at a mall. Paul Hoskins, who also worked on the investigation, is now in the precinct's basement, poring over cold cases. And let's not forget Gloria, who is still known as Bluebeard's wife. The emergence of the copycat they call the Secondhand Killer gives everyone a collective lift. Hoskins comes up from the basement, Sammie goes back to writing crime stories, and as for Gloria . . . well, although she's "half-tempted to do something crazy," she clings to the one rule that has sustained her throughout her marriage: "Gloria knows nothing." And she never, ever lingers in the garage. HERE'S SOMETHING TO elevate your paranoia about traveling on overcrowded subways. I see you (Berkley, $26), a nasty little tale by the British author (and former police officer) Clare Mackintosh, articulates female riders' secret fears of being stalked by some silent watcher on the London Underground. Zoe Walker, one of the narrators in this well-told suspense story, follows the same routine - same train, same car, same door - when she commutes to and from her real estate job. Glancing over the ads in the evening paper, she's shocked to find her own photo advertising "dating services" on FindTheOne.com. She's not the only one, it turns out, and at least two of the women are later murdered. Mackintosh supplies refreshingly realistic domestic scenes for the women in this slow-burning narrative, including Kelly Swift of the British Transport Police, who talks her way onto this case to get back in the big leagues. She's a well-drawn character with a rich home life (another one of the author's strengths) and good company on this case, which - with the exception of a forced and truly awful ending - really hits home for daily commuters with robotic schedules and vivid imaginations. IS SHE TOUGH or is she tough? In Kathleen Kent's brawling crime novel, THE DIME (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), Betty (Riz) Rhyzyk and her girlfriend have left Brooklyn for Dallas - the real Dallas of "truck drivers, Mexican laborers, lawyers, parolees and cops mixed elbow to elbow with white privileged gringas driving expensive S.U.V.s." It's a good career move for the statuesque cop with the "hussy red" hair, who seems suited to the new criminal terrain of drug lords so cruel they leave severed heads as calling cards and biker gangs so brutal they "eat Hells Angels for breakfast." The plot revolves around the Asian sex- and drug-trafficking trade run by the cutest little old lady you ever did see, but the broader appeal is Kent's offbeat humor, which pulls up reins just before it takes the story over a cliff. LET US NOW praise the cozy mystery, so comforting on dark days, so warming on chilly nights - the literary equivalent of a cat. TWELVE ANGRY LIBRARIANS (Berkley Prime Crime, $26), the latest Cat in the Stacks mystery by Miranda James, checks a lot of essential boxes: college setting (check), academic politics (check), tasteful murder (check) and, of course, clever house cat (check). As host of the annual conference of the Southern Academic Library Association, Charlie Harris, interim library director at Athena College in Mississippi, finds himself fending off self-designated luminaries like the arrogant Gavin Fong, plenary speaker of the convention and the perfect candidate for murder. Gavin has applied for the job of library director that Charlie himself hopes to win, which makes socializing awkward; more so when Gavin keels over dead while delivering his incendiary keynote address ("The academic library is dying"). Good riddance - but a sweet opportunity for Charlie to exercise his detection skills, after consulting with his big old Maine coon cat, Diesel.
Library Journal Review
A grown-up version of "stranger danger" for regular female riders plays out on London's commuter routes. These are not totally randomly selected victims but targets offered by mysterious classified advertisements with their photos in a daily paper. Zoe Walker discovers her own photo in an ad for FindtheOne.com and has very good reason to feel paranoid as other women are attacked. Mackintosh's (I Let You Go) sophomore novel, well crafted and laced with tension and a number of plausible suspects, builds with polished pacing. Rachel Atkins wrings out every bit of fear and panic in her presentation without transcending believability. Verdict Highly recommended for all mystery collections. ["A chilling addition to the mystery and police procedural genres": LJ 2/1/17 review of the Berkley hc.]-Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.