Looker

By Laura Sims

Book Overview

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*

In this "wicked slow burn" (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor--the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband's cat.

As her fascination with her famous neighbor grows, the narrator's hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she's collecting cast-off items from the actress's stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress's husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunning--and irrevocable--unraveling.

A riveting portrait of obsession, Looker is "a sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror" (The Wall Street Journal) and an immersive and darkly entertaining read--"by the end you'll be gasping" (People).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501199110
• ISBN13: 9781501199110
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The book screams secondhand embarrassment

The book is narrated by a recently separated woman on a downward spiral. You’ll find yourself shaking your head and asking why more often than not. Great read.

Different but good

Reading this book was like driving down the road and seeing a car accident. I shouldn’t look. I don’t want to look. I can’t stop looking. That was like every turn of the page in this story. Every page, every chapter, the unnamed character hit a new rock bottom, then another, and another. The things this woman said and did made me cringe as a reader, but also drew me in deeper to the story. A quick read, I knocked this book out on a rainy afternoon. Very engaging writing style, I will be reading more books by Laura Sims in the future.