Come a Little Closer

Author Karen Perry
Narrator Aoife McMahon, Julia Winwood, Aidan Kelley
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Run Time 11 hours and 36 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Modern and contemporary fiction, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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Leah is in love. It should be the happiest summer of her life, but she can't help feeling lonely with Jake's attention divided between her, his ex-wife and his young son. As insomnia sets in, the walls of their new basement flat feel as if they're closing in around her.
Until she meets her upstairs neighbour, Anton, who has recently moved back in after a long absence from the street. He's a sympathetic ear when Jake can't be, and even though others on the street seem strangely hostile towards him, Leah soon comes to rely on Anton and their secret conversations in the night.
Leah has no idea that fifteen years before, Anton was convicted of killing his wife. A wife who looked a little bit like Leah. He has always said he didn't do it.
Is Leah his redemption? Or is she befriending a killer intent on luring her closer and closer?
Leah is in love. It should be the happiest summer of her life, but she can't help feeling lonely with Jake's attention divided between her, his ex-wife and his young son. As insomnia sets in, the walls of their new basement flat feel as if they're closing in around her.
Until she meets her upstairs neighbour, Anton, who has recently moved back in after a long absence from the street. He's a sympathetic ear when Jake can't be, and even though others on the street seem strangely hostile towards him, Leah soon comes to rely on Anton and their secret conversations in the night.
Leah has no idea that fifteen years before, Anton was convicted of killing his wife. A wife who looked a little bit like Leah. He has always said he didn't do it.
Is Leah his redemption? Or is she befriending a killer intent on luring her closer and closer?

Critics Review

An intense drama. Perry has come up with a clever novel in which everyone is hiding something, and keeps the reader guessing
Sunday Times
This slippery thriller conjures an intense sense of claustrophobia, delivering some deftly crafted surprises
Sunday Mirror
Reminiscent of Du Maurier’s Rebecca . . . Intriguing, compelling and shocking, Perry pulls you into a web of deceit that will enthralled and entertain you. I loved it.
Liz Nugent
Slick, engrossing, twisted and addictive. Domestic crime drama at its best. Highly recommended
Jo Spain
Nicely paced and twisty, this welcome addition to the new trend of ‘noxious neighbours’ fiction will have you questioning what really goes on behind closed doors
Crime Monthly
Delightfully slippery thriller. It expertly conjures up an intense sense of claustrophobia as well as delivering some deftly crafted surprises
The People
Praise for Karen Perry
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Like Gone Girl . . . it’s the most gripping thing I’ve read for ages
Evening Standard
A brilliant binge-read thriller with a real roller coaster of an ending
Heat
Original and impressively contemporary with an excellent final twist
Daily Mail
Builds to an incredibly tense finale before delivering an amazing final twist
Sunday Mirror
Stunning
Truly remarkable . . . Grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go
If you’re a fan of menacing psychological thrillers that chill to the bone, this book is for you
Beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations
Telegraph
Genuinely surprising
Guardian
Don’t be surprised if you devour it in one sitting
Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last page
It’s that most powerful thing, a beautifully written mystery driven by its exploration of the characters’ innermost hearts
Unputdownable, leading to a stunning conclusion you won’t see coming
Tense, unpredictable, blending a thriller with an intimate family story to produce a most compelling read
Cleverly written. A tense domestic thriller that is full of surprises
Irish Mail on Sunday
One of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of the year, a book that hooks the reader from the first page
Irish Independent
Perry is excellent at ratcheting up the tension at just the right moment, and the pages just keep turning at a rate of knots
Connaught Telegraph

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