Description: How Can I Help You by Laura Sims Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.... FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A razor-sharp psychological suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession. No one knows Margos 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 Margos subtly sinister edge and watches her carefully. When a patrons death in the library bathroom offers a hint of Margos mysterious past, Patricia cant resist digging deeper even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming. Author Biography Laura Sims is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Looker. An award-winning poet, Sims has published four poetry collections; her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Electric Lit, Gulf Coast, and more. She and her family live in New Jersey, where she works part-time as a reference librarian and hosts the librarys lecture series. Review 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 Patricias exploitation of her rivetingly grotesque subject - and Laura Simss - 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... youll 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) * Details ISBN0857308750 Author Laura Sims Pages 224 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780857308757 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-07-25 Imprint Verve Books Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-07-25 ISBN-10 0857308750 Publisher Verve Books AU Release Date 2024-08-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161408120;
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