Watch Her: A Gripping Novel of Suspense with a Thrilling Twist

By Edwin Hill

Book Overview

In the third intelligently dark suspense novel by two-time Agatha Award-nominated author Edwin Hill, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby becomes enmeshed with a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their deepest secrets from coming to light... While attending a gala at Prescott University's lavish new campus, Hester Thursby and fellow guest, Detective Angela White, are called to the home of the college's owners, Tucker and Jennifer Matson. Jennifer claims that someone broke into Pinebank, their secluded mansion on the banks of Jamaica Pond. The more Hester and Angela investigate, the less they believe Jennifer's story, leaving Hester to wonder why she would lie. When Hester is asked by the college's general manager to locate some missing alumni, she employs her research skills on the family and their for-profit university. Between financial transgressions, a long-ago tragedy, and rumors of infidelity, it's clear that the Matsons aren't immune to scandal or mishap. But when one of the missing students turns up dead, the mystery takes on new urgency. Hester is edging closer to the truth, but as a decades-old secret collides with new lies, and a powerful Boston family grows more desperate to keep their darkest deeds from coming to light, a killer is more determined to keep the past buried with the dead...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496726774
• ISBN13: 9781496726773
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.7" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Intriguing Mystery

Although I hadn't read the first two books in the series I was still able to thoroughly enjoy this story. I will definitely go back and read the other two though. I really liked this story. Hester is a librarian who solves mysteries and she is good at what she does. The dialogue for this book was easy to read and follow along even if you haven't ever read the other ones. The book starts with Hester and her friend attending a gala for Prescott University when they find out someone has broken in the university owner's home. As the story unfolds Hester quickly learns not everyone is telling the truth. As Hester starts digging she finds more than she could ever expect to find. The book takes off from there and ends with a satisfying and clear conclusion. I will definitely pick up the other two in the series as these were the perfect kind of mystery. It was not typical and a very intriguing plot line that some could say was timely. Highly recommend.

A slow burner but good!

This was a slow burning thriller, blending past and present into a dangerous mixture of secrets and what someone will do to protect those secrets and those that they care for. The Matson family seems to be the perfect well to do family that owns Prescott University and what seems like half the city. But there are cracks beginning to show as Jennifer goes off the deep end with mysterious intruders and Hester dives into some anomalies with missing students from the university. It is not a fast thriller but I sped through it because I wanted to know all the whys and whodunits. This may have been the third book in the Hester Thursby mysteries but I had no problem getting into the story and figuring out characters. I love that Hester is a librarian by trade but that has not stopped her from figuring out mysteries and stopping killers. She is a likeable character and I am definitely going to read the other two books that she is in now.