Someone's Listening: A Novel

by Seraphina Nova Glass

Overview

She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.

Faith Finley has it all: she’s a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She’s married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic.

Until the night everything goes horribly wrong, and Faith’s life is shattered forever.

Liam is missing—gone without a trace—and the police are suspicious of everything Faith says. They either think she has something to hide, or that she’s lost her mind.

And then the notes begin to arrive. Notes that are ripped from Faith’s own book, the one that helps victims leave their abusers. Notes like “Lock your windows. Consider investing in a steel door.”

As the threats escalate, the mystery behind Liam’s disappearance intensifies. And Faith’s very life will depend on finding answers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781525836749
Publisher:	Graydon House Books
Publication date:	07/28/2020
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	338,132
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Seraphina Nova Glass is a professor and playwright-in-residence at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches film studies and playwriting. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Smith College, and she's also a screenwriter and award-winning playwright. Seraphina has traveled the world using theatre and film as a teaching tool, living in South Africa, Guam and Kenya as a volunteer teacher, AIDS relief worker, and documentary filmmaker.

Editorial Reviews

★ 05/04/2020

Psychologist Faith Finley, the heroine of Glass’s stellar debut, has a happy marriage, a thriving clinical psychology practice near Chicago, and a radio show based on her bestselling book, Starting Over: Life After Abuse. But Faith’s life starts to unravel after a car accident puts her in the hospital and her husband, Liam, goes missing. Then an underage patient of Faith’s accuses her of sexual misconduct, and Faith, formerly a media darling, is excoriated and condemned by the press. Without Liam to rely on, Faith reacts badly and turns to alcohol. As circumstances worsen, she fights back, determined to not only clear her name but also find Liam. Yet every step forward brings two back: the police seem intent on blaming Faith for the accident and have no leads on Liam’s whereabouts, then she finds an envelope with her name on it in her mailbox—inside is a scrap of paper torn from her book, which starts: “Secure your own home.” Intrigue and red herrings abound. Exceptionally well-drawn characters set this above the psychological thriller pack. Readers will eagerly await Glass’s next. Agent: Sharon Bowers, Folio Literary Management. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"Glass weaves a taut web of suspicion, murder and revenge in this chilling tale. Sinister characters and blind ends increasingly heighten the tension until the harrowing final climax. Add SOMEONE’S LISTENING to your must read list!” —Liv Constantine, internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

“Unputdownable. I found myself suspecting everyone at some point. Twisty, original and a must-read—highly suspenseful and cleverly written.” —Karen Hamilton, bestselling author of The Perfect Girlfriend


"Seraphina Nova Glass is an exceedingly talented writer. Poignant, engrossing." —Ed Asner, five-time Golden Globe winner and seven-time Emmy winner

"A taut and intriguing suspense that held my attention from the very first page. I thought I had it figured out, but I had no idea what was in store. A stunning and impressive debut."—Alessandra Torre, New York Times bestselling author

"[A] stellar debut...exceptionally well-drawn characters set this above the psychological thriller pack."—Publishers Weekly

"A sharply written, twisty psychological thriller that could easily fit on your bookshelf next to Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train...the mystery and ambiguity build with each subsequent chapter en route to a suspense-filled and breathless finale."—BookPage

“[An] entertaining mystery... Nicely creepy.” –Booklist


"A terrifying cautionary tale that reminds us how easily our delicately ordered lives can quickly fall apart."—Gumshoe Review

"A solid thriller...a twisty tale of revenge."—RedCarpetCrash

From the Publisher

02/01/2020

Following the LJ-starred Our House, which was Candlish's U.S. debut, The Other Couple features middle-aged Clare and Jamie and the young couple they befriend, the upwardly aspiring Melia and Kit, until one day Kit vanishes after being seen arguing with Jamie on their regular ferryboat commute. Giller Prize winner Coady's Watching You Without Me opens with Karen back home in Novia Scotia after her mother's unexpected death, tending to her sister full-time and depending on her mother's old caregiver, Trevor, of whom she becomes increasingly suspicious. In JP Delaney's Playing Nice, the Riley and Lambert families are devastated to learn that their two-year-olds were switched at birth—and it gets worse. A prize finalist in Australia, Downes brings us disappointed thespian Emily Proudman, who thinks she's found The Safe Place she needs when she agrees to become housekeeper/nanny at the French estate of the Dennys—but her employers' dark secrets will out. In debuter Glass's Someone's Listening, scandal-ridden psychologist and radio star Faith Finley attends the launch of her new book with her husband, but when her car crashes afterward, the police claim he was not with her (70,000-copy first printing). In Hamilton's The Last Wife, Marie promises to watch over terminally ill friend Nina's family, but after Nina's death she starts uncovering uncomfortable intimations about what happened on a long-ago vacation they took in Ibiza that left Marie's boyfriend dead (200,000-copy paperback and 10,000-copy hardcover first printing). Finally, in Harriet Tyce's The Lies You Told, anxious mom Sadie Roper, newly single and newly reemployed as a barrister, is thrilled to win the attention of Liza, queen-bee mother at her children's school—but at what cost? From the author of Blood Orange; with a 40,000-copy first printing.

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