Her Every Fear
Peter Swanson's Her Every Fear is a contemporary psychological thriller set in motion by an apartment swap. Kate Priddy is a young London art student with severe panic disorder and a history of being stalked by a violent ex boyfriend. Hoping a change of scenery will help her recover, she trades flats with her American cousin Corbin Dell, a cousin she has never met, and moves into his beautiful Beacon Hill apartment in Boston. Within days of arriving, Kate learns that Corbin's neighbor across the hall, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered, and the police have questions about Corbin that he refuses to come back to answer. The novel rotates among a small cast of unreliable narrators, including a soft spoken voyeur in the building who has been watching Audrey for months. Swanson, working in the Hitchcock tradition of Strangers on a Train and Rear Window, builds the story toward a series of switchbacks that force Kate to use the very anxiety that has crippled her as a kind of survival instinct.
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Kate Priddy swaps her London flat for her American cousin's Boston apartment. When the woman next door turns up dead, Kate becomes convinced the killer has been watching her cousin's apartment all along.
Her Every Fear was written by Peter Swanson and published in 2017. It is a psychological thriller about a young woman who swaps Boston and London apartments with a stranger and finds a body next door.
No. Her Every Fear is a standalone thriller. Peter Swanson has written several other standalones, including The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders.
Her Every Fear is 384 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Her Every Fear takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Her Every Fear is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.