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Summary
Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping
A FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK
"Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense." --Elle
" Nightwatching is like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it's amazing."--Lisa Jewell
A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise--old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.
She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.
In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she'd feared, because she knows exactly who he is--and what he wants.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
At the start of attorney Sierra's outstanding debut, an unnamed mother huddles inside a tiny, secret room in her family's isolated New England home with her eight-year-old daughter and five-year-old son, the latter of whom she struggles to keep quiet so the monstrous intruder searching the house won't find them. Just when the tension becomes almost unbearable, Sierra flashes back to happier times with the protagonist's now-absent husband, and further still to her childhood marked by the untimely death of her mother. As the story unspools, each of these narrative strands sheds light on the others, and it gradually becomes clear who might be stalking through the narrator's house--and why she's hesitant to call the police. As grippingly suspenseful as the plot is, Sierra's first outing boasts other strengths just as noteworthy, from its transportingly eerie setting to its indelible main character, a petite, prototypical "good girl" pushed to the brink by years of being underestimated, patronized, and disbelieved by men with power. The icing on the cake is the splendid ending, which feels both surprising and inevitable, shifting perceptions of nearly everything that came before without landing like a gimmick. Readers will be eager to see what Sierra does next. Agent: Helen Heller, Helen Heller Agency. (Feb.)
Booklist Review
Late one night, alone in the middle of a blizzard with her two young children, a mother realizes that there is an intruder in the house. She acts quickly, whisking her little ones to a tiny secret room hidden behind a panel in their old farmhouse. In the claustrophobic darkness, she is taunted and terrorized by the intruder, who stalks through the house for hours, systematically searching for them. Worse, she gradually recognizes his voice, and with it, the chilling knowledge of what he wants. What she doesn't know is that her nightmare is just beginning, as the aftermath of the incident sees every decision she made called into question. Frequent flashbacks provide readers with just enough context to gradually puzzle everything out as the story races to a surprising, satisfying conclusion. A keenly suspenseful first novel, made even more compelling by what it has to say about the way women are often misjudged and treated unfairly in matters of marriage, family life, and mental health.