You Are Not Alone

by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Overview

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

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The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US and AN ANONYMOUS GIRL return with a brand new novel of psychological suspense, YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely.

Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better.

Shay would die for them to like her.

She may have to.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250202031
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/03/2020
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	560,091
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

GREER HENDRICKS spent two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Allure, and Publishers Weekly.

SARAH PEKKANEN is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of eight previous novels. A former investigative journalist and feature writer, her work has been published in The Washington Post, USA Today, and many others.

Together, they have written the New York Times bestselling novels The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl.

Editorial Reviews

01/13/2020

At the start of this entertaining yet shallow psychological thriller from bestsellers Hendricks and Pekkanen (The Wife Between Us), lonely temp Shay Miller watches in horror as a stranger, Amanda Evinger, commits suicide by throwing herself off a Manhattan subway platform in front of a moving train. The distraught Shay, who becomes fixated on Amanda, tracks down the young woman’s address and shows up at her memorial service. Shay’s presence attracts the attention of glamorous sisters Jane and Cassandra Moore, whose inner circle of women included Amanda. Jane and Cassandra worry that somehow Amanda confessed to Shay that the women are involved in a kind of vigilante justice in which they inflict revenge on people who may have wronged one of them. Though the story doesn’t delve deep into the characters, the strong plot generates plenty of tension as the sisters befriend Shay and set about remaking her life—all the better to spy on her. Though not up to the standard of the authors’ previous books, this one’s sure to please suspense fans. Agents: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Margaret Riley King, WME. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen:

"Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Masterfully escalates the suspense...keep[s] the reader guessing until the end. A great follow-up." —Booklist(starred review)

“Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves...Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen seem to have mastered the formula...a creepy-crawly tale.” —New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

03/06/2020

Shay Miller is not having a good day. She's been laid off from her job, her roommate (whom she secretly adores) has a new girlfriend, and on her way to a promising interview, she's the only witness to a woman's suicide at the subway station. More invested than she'll even admit to herself, Shay tries to find out more about the victim. She learns the woman's name and address and ends up at Amanda Evinger's memorial service, where she's befriended by two sisters, Cassandra and Jane Moore. The Moores are beautiful, stylish, and everything Shay wishes she could be. But are they what they seem, and why do they need her friendship so desperately? VERDICT Dynamic duo Hendricks and Pekkanen (The Wife Between Us) bat another one out of the park with this unputdownable, highly recommended thrill ride. [See Prepub Alert, 8/25/19.]—Cynthia Price, Francis Marion Univ. Lib., Florence, SC

Library Journal

2019-12-23
Witnessing a suicide proves almost fatal for the witness herself.

Shay Miller would not have been on that subway platform had she not taken the 22 seconds required to tie up her ponytail. Because she did, she is the sole witness to a suicide that changes her life. But is she stalking the friends of the dead girl, or are they stalking her? It seems to be both, as Hendricks and Pekkanen (An Anonymous Girl, 2019) unfold another one of their intricately plotted, female-focused thrillers. Rage about rape and sexual abuse underlies the plot as Google searches, dating apps, and hacked phones move it forward, making this a thriller of the moment. Here, the evil men are on the sidelines—the women are pitted against each other in a complicated game of cat and mouse. Shay, who is lonely, insecure, and broke, is easily drawn in by the cool and confident Moore sisters, who ply her with beauty makeovers, a "sea-blue leather purse," "a sugar cookie scented Nest candle, with notes of Tahitian vanilla and bourbon infused caramel," and, most devastatingly, the illusion of friendship. But socially awkward, highly observant Shay, who makes her way through life by recording statistics and factoids about human nature in a "Data Book," can only be fooled so long. "Between 73 and 79 percent of homicides during a 15-year period were committed by offenders known to the victim," she notes. Good thing to know. The authors dole out clues in a series of interlocking flashbacks; finally we get the detail that makes the pieces come together, with just a few little issues to argue about in your book club.

Lots of frenzied flipping back and forth for readers who like to figure out the puzzle.

Kirkus Reviews