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Nightwatching

Nightwatching

Summary

Spring 2024 Jimmy Fallon Book Club Winner

DISCOVER THE THRILLER KEEPING EVERYONE AWAKE

‘The most gripping thriller I have ever read’ GILLIAN McALLISTER
Like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings, it's amazingLISA JEWELL
‘As tender as it is terrifying’ ABIGAIL DEAL
‘You won’t be able to look away’ SHARI LAPENA
‘Heart-thumping and mesmerizing’ ASHLEY AUDRAIN
‘One of the best thrillers I’ve ever read’ JENNIE GODFREY

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There was someone in the house.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then 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...

In that split second, she has three choices.

Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?

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NIGHTWATCHING is the unmissable thriller of the year:

'Terrifying and unputdownable' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'Absolutely, breathtakingly superb' SOPHIE HANNAH
'A scalpel-sharp thriller' NIKKI SMITH
'I couldn't put it down' ALAFAIR BURKE
‘Eerily atmospheric, pulse-pounding and unputdownable’ SARAH PEKKANEN
'One of the most haunting, gripping novels I've read in a long time' KATIE GUTIERREZ
‘I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’ LINWOOD BARCLAY

Reviews

  • Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk
    CHRIS WHITAKER

About the author

Tracy Sierra

Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.
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