Keep You Close
Description
When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.
Marianne--and the whole Glass family--once meant everything to Rowan. For a teenage girl, motherless with a much-absent father, this lively, intellectual household represented a world of glamour and opportunity. But since their estrangement, Rowan knows only what the papers reported about Marianne's life: her swift ascent in the London art world, her much-scrutinized romance with her gallerist. If she wants to discover the truth about her death, Rowan needs to know more. Was Marianne in distress? In danger? And so she begins to seek clues--in Marianne's latest work, her closest relationships, and her new friendship with an iconoclastic fellow artist. But the deeper Rowan goes, the more sinister everything seems. And a secret in the past only she knows makes her worry about her own fate . . .Product Details
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About the Author
Lucie Whitehouse grew up in Warwickshire, England, studied classics at the University of Oxford, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. She is author of The House at Midnight, The Bed I Made, and Before We Met.
Twitter: @LWhitehouse5
Reviews
"A wickedly addictive psychological thriller with enough twists and turns to keep genre enthusiasts captivated and reading well past their bedtime." - Library Journal (starred review)
"Nail-biting . . . An emotionally satisfying read that builds to a thrilling climax." - Publishers Weekly
"A first-rate psychological thriller about the decisions we make that forever define us." - Kirkus Reviews
"An absorbing, twisty psychological thriller that plays with the line between love and obsession." - Booklist
"Whitehouse's carefully constructed tinder ignites spectacularly. Whitehouse is a superb storyteller, whose sleight of hand and sly misdirections have you leaping to all the wrong conclusions from the outset. We do not know who can be trusted, least of all the increasingly volatile Rowan. The twist, and it would appear that no psych thriller is now complete without one, is right up there." - The Independent
"You know a psychological thriller has done its job when you get to the last page and have an urge to instantly return to the first, to work out just how you've been so thoroughly hoodwinked. In this case it's by elegant plotting, brilliant characterization and a truly killer twist." - The Sunday Mirror
"[A] quietly menacing psychological thriller that mines the trickier bits of family and friendship." - Washington Post
"Of course, things are not entirely what they seem, and readers are in for some surprising--and shocking!--revelations . . . It is masterfully done." - Pop Culture Association
"I devoured Keep You Close. Very clever, very gripping ... I loved it." - Susie Steiner, author of MISSING, PRESUMED
"Lucie Whitehouse's new novel, Keep You Close, kept me up all night long. I couldn't stop reading until I reached the final, shattering pages. Skillfully constructed and beautifully realized, Keep You Close is the next must-read for fans of The Girl on the Train." - Amanda Eyre Ward, author of HOW TO BE LOST and THE SAME SKY
