How Can I Help You
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Published:25th Jul '24
Should be back in stock very soon
A razor-sharp psychological suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined,How Can I Help Youexplores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.
No one knows Margo's real name.
Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges.
That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's subtly sinister edge and watches her carefully. When a patron's death in the library bathroom offers a hint of Margo's mysterious past, Patricia can't resist digging deeper - even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming.
A marvellously intense, read-in-one-sitting game of cat and mouse among the book stacks * Guardian *
Openly indebted to Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, this is a terrific two-hander... This makes for fine cat-and-mouse (or cat-and-cat?) suspense, but also an unsettling moral tale in which Patricia's exploitation of her rivetingly grotesque subject - and Laura Sims's - is called into question * Sunday Times *
A fun and entertaining cat-and-mouse novel... a perfect book for when you just want to sit back, relax, and read about women behaving badly... you'll fly through the pages
* Glamour *Sims plumbs the depths of obsession and madness... deftly building the tension until the explosive ending * The Washington Post *
Deliciously unsettling * New York Times (Best Thrillers of 2023) *
ISBN: 9780857308757
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages