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YOU ARE NOT ALONE

by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020

Lots of frenzied flipping back and forth for readers who like to figure out the puzzle.

Witnessing a suicide proves almost fatal for the witness herself.

Shay Miller would not have been on that subway platform had she not taken the 22 seconds required to tie up her ponytail. Because she did, she is the sole witness to a suicide that changes her life. But is she stalking the friends of the dead girl, or are they stalking her? It seems to be both, as Hendricks and Pekkanen ( An Anonymous Girl , 2019) unfold another one of their intricately plotted, female-focused thrillers. Rage about rape and sexual abuse underlies the plot as Google searches, dating apps, and hacked phones move it forward, making this a thriller of the moment. Here, the evil men are on the sidelines—the women are pitted against each other in a complicated game of cat and mouse. Shay, who is lonely, insecure, and broke, is easily drawn in by the cool and confident Moore sisters, who ply her with beauty makeovers, a “sea-blue leather purse,” “a sugar cookie scented Nest candle, with notes of Tahitian vanilla and bourbon infused caramel,” and, most devastatingly, the illusion of friendship. But socially awkward, highly observant Shay, who makes her way through life by recording statistics and factoids about human nature in a “Data Book,” can only be fooled so long. “Between 73 and 79 percent of homicides during a 15-year period were committed by offenders known to the victim,” she notes. Good thing to know. The authors dole out clues in a series of interlocking flashbacks; finally we get the detail that makes the pieces come together, with just a few little issues to argue about in your book club.

Pub Date: March 3, 2020

ISBN: 978-1-250-20203-1

Page Count: 352

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2019

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2020

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by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).

A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene.

Pub Date: June 16, 2020

ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7

Page Count: 304

Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine

Review Posted Online: Feb. 9, 2020

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020

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THEN SHE WAS GONE

by Lisa Jewell ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2018

Dark and unsettling, this novel’s end arrives abruptly even as readers are still moving at a breakneck speed.

Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past.

Laurel Mack’s life stopped in many ways the day her 15-year-old daughter, Ellie, left the house to study at the library and never returned. She drifted away from her other two children, Hanna and Jake, and eventually she and her husband, Paul, divorced. Ten years later, Ellie’s remains and her backpack are found, though the police are unable to determine the reasons for her disappearance and death. After Ellie’s funeral, Laurel begins a relationship with Floyd, a man she meets in a cafe. She's disarmed by Floyd’s charm, but when she meets his young daughter, Poppy, Laurel is startled by her resemblance to Ellie. As the novel progresses, Laurel becomes increasingly determined to learn what happened to Ellie, especially after discovering an odd connection between Poppy’s mother and her daughter even as her relationship with Floyd is becoming more serious. Jewell’s ( I Found You , 2017, etc.) latest thriller moves at a brisk pace even as she plays with narrative structure: The book is split into three sections, including a first one which alternates chapters between the time of Ellie’s disappearance and the present and a second section that begins as Laurel and Floyd meet. Both of these sections primarily focus on Laurel. In the third section, Jewell alternates narrators and moments in time: The narrator switches to alternating first-person points of view (told by Poppy’s mother and Floyd) interspersed with third-person narration of Ellie’s experiences and Laurel’s discoveries in the present. All of these devices serve to build palpable tension, but the structure also contributes to how deeply disturbing the story becomes. At times, the characters and the emotional core of the events are almost obscured by such quick maneuvering through the weighty plot.

Pub Date: April 24, 2018

ISBN: 978-1-5011-5464-5

Page Count: 368

Publisher: Atria

Review Posted Online: Feb. 5, 2018

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2018

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Review: You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Editorial note: I received a copy of You Are Not Alone in exchange for a review.

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen is an entertaining twist on the thriller genre. 

There’s a ton of thrillers out there now. It really seems that ever since the huge popularity of Gone Girl , publishers are all in on the thriller genre. But quantity doesn’t always make for quality.

I receive lots of different books from publishers for reviews. And many of them are thrillers. But I would say about 70% of the thrillers are not well-crafted and they follow the same formula—spouse cheats on spouse; spouse gets revenge. I’m very much over those storylines so I’m quite picky on which thrillers I’ll review and recommend. 

That said, I enjoyed last year’s An Anonymous Girl by writing duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. I thought it was a well done and I was engaged throughout the story. But I have to say You Are Not Alone is even better and a much stronger story . 

The story follows Shay Miller, a very lonely woman who on a fateful day witnesses a horrible tragedy. She eventually meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they want. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. But of course, appearances are deceiving. 

Something I liked right off the bat was that this thriller focuses on women and their friendships with other women. It was refreshing for a story in this genre to move away from any type of domestic dispute between spouses. Shay is a solid protagonist, you really can feel her loneliness and desperation. She’s definitely the type of woman where life really hasn’t blossomed for her yet—she’s kind of stuck in a limbo stage a bit. And the Moore sisters bring a dose of glamour and friendship to Shay or so she thinks. 

Friendship dynamics 

Female friendships are one of the most unique and complicated relationships. Oftentimes, women worry about what other women think of them way more than any other dynamic. Shay is enamored with the glamorous Moore sisters and even tries to dress up a bit more to impress them. She’s so desperate to have the kind of friendships that are portrayed in the media. 

The Moore sisters are fully aware of their influence and magnetic quality and they use this to their full advantage to get what they want out of people. They’re quite manipulative, intelligent and mysterious.  

Shay’s yearning to fit in really clouds her vision of choices she makes. But I think most people could relate to trying to be part of a group and even maybe adjusting areas of their personality so they fit in. 

Character study

I feel the story is a bit stronger with regards to the examination of its characters compared to others in this genre. People making bad or cruel choices just because they can is not interesting. But showing a bit more behind the scenes of decision making and why someone has a certain viewpoint makes for a much stronger story. Not that you’ll agree with them but it makes the story better. 

I think it was interesting how the book is marketed as “you probably know someone like Shay” but “you probably don’t know anyone like the Moore sisters.” Let’s say you definitely don’t want to know anyone like those sisters! 

The suspense and twists are well done with this one. And I thought it was a lot stronger story to have it involve primarily women. I can’t really say more as I don’t want to give any spoilers! 

If you like thrillers, you’ll be into You Are Not Alone . If thrillers aren’t your genre, I will say this is one of the better ones that you might want to give it a chance. It’s an easy, quick read that you’ll most likely read in one sitting. 

Book clubs will have plenty to discuss and debate! Check out my book club questions here . 

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Review: You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley. All opinions are my own.

Authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen are a dynamic duo when it comes to writing dark and twisty psychological thrillers that keep readers on the edge of their seats, and their latest offering, You Are Not Alone , continues the trend.  You Are Not Alone is a dark and disturbing read that explores what happens when an emotionally vulnerable young woman finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The story follows Shay Miller, whose life is just overall in a disappointing place for her.  She is working a temp job with no prospects of a permanent position on the horizon, she has no real friends to speak of, and she is in love with her roommate Sean, who already has a long-time girlfriend.  Shay finds herself mostly isolated and therefore vulnerable. When Shay happens to be in a subway station and witnesses a young woman commit suicide, she becomes obsessed with learning more about the victim.  She knows her obsession is unhealthy, but she feels compelled nonetheless to find out what led her to take her own life.

I found myself incredibly sympathetic to Shay and the position she has found herself in.  She feels a connection to the suicide victim in part because she can so easily put herself in that woman’s place and can imagine feeling like there’s nothing worth living for. I can understand why she feels it’s so important to find out what exactly drove this woman to do what she did.  She’s thinking of herself and what could drive her to that same point.

The story, and Shay’s life, takes a drastically different turn when she decides to attend the memorial service for the suicide victim and meets Cassandra and Jane Moore, who are sisters and who were also both close to the deceased.  Shay is fascinated by the ultra-charismatic sisters and her obsession with the victim soon expands to include them as well, especially since they seem very eager to befriend her.  Shay is desperate for friends and begins to imagine herself taking the victim’s place in the sisters’ circle of friends. Seems to easy and too good to be true, right?

Good things start happening for Shay as she deepens her connection to the sisters…until suddenly, they don’t. Out of nowhere, Shay finds herself inexplicably caught up in the investigation into the death of the suicide victim as well as another crime.  The authors ratchet up the tension and suspense as Shay desperately tries to figure out what is going on and how she’s going to get herself out of the mess she has found herself in.  I had a few minor issues with pacing early on in the story, but once I got to this part of the book, I flew through the rest of the pages trying put together the pieces of this wild and crazy puzzle.

You Are Not Alone is a disturbing and complex tale of manipulation, danger, and revenge.  If you’re into dark, twisty, and suspenseful reads, this is one that needs to go on your must-read list.

About Greer Hendricks

GREER HENDRICKS spent over two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Prior to her tenure in publishing, she worked at Allure Magazine and obtained her Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children, The Wife Between Us is her first novel.

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About Sarah Pekkanen

Internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen’s newest book is THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS. She is also the co-author of the upcoming THE WIFE BETWEEN US (out in January 2018).

Her prior novels are: THINGS YOU WON’T SAY, CATCHING AIR, THE BEST OF US, THE OPPOSITE OF ME, SKIPPING A BEAT, and THESE GIRLS.

Sarah’s linked free short estories, published by Simon&Schuster exclusively for ereaders, are titled “All is Bright,” and “Love, Accidentally.”

Sarah is the mother of three young boys, which explains why she writes part of her novels at Chuck E. Cheese. Sarah penned her first book, Miscellaneous Tales and Poems, at the age of 10. When publishers failed to jump upon this literary masterpiece (hey, all the poems rhymed!) Sarah followed up by sending them a sternly-worded letter on Raggedy Ann stationery. Sarah still has that letter, and carries it to New York every time she has meetings with her publisher, as a reminder that dreams do come true.

Her website is www.sarahpekkanen.com and please find her on Facebook Instagram and Twitter @sarahpekkanen!

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I haven’t read anything by these two, but I’m glad to hear their latest was a hit for you. It sounds very intriguing!

If you’re into psychological thrillers, they are definitely worth checking out.

This sounds really disturbing! I was worried for the main character just reading your review😬

Yeah, disturbing is a good word for it. I felt so bad for her because of the mess she found herself in the middle of.

Yes, I’m into dark, twisty tales! I’m listening to this next. Wonderful review, Suzanne💜

I hope you enjoy it, Jonetta!

I still haven’t read a book by this duo, but this one sounds appealing!

I also liked Shay. The whole thing was sort of outlandish but still entertaining!

I agree. If it was a movie, it would be the type where I’d be screaming at the screen the entire time but enjoying every minute of it.

This sounds like an intense and exciting read! I’m glad the pace picked up, and you enjoyed this dark, twisted, and suspenseful read. Great Review Suzanne!

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Book Review: You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

By john valeri.

You Are Not Alone

Greer hendricks & sarah pekkanen.

March 3, 2020

While it would be easy to attribute the success of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen to the dynamism of their creative collaboration, that would diminish their individual accomplishments. Hendricks earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, has contributed to the New York Times , Publishers Weekly , and Allure , and spent more than twenty years as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Pekkanen is a former investigative reporter and features writer who has been published in the Washington Post and other reputable outlets and achieved USA Today and internationally bestselling status with eight solo novels. Together, they have drawn on their experiences to write the runaway New York Times bestsellers The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl , both of which are in development for the screen. March’s You Are Not Alone is their third joint offering.

Read More: CrimeHQ Reviews The Wife Between Us

As the story opens, thirty-one-year-old temp worker/data analyst Shay Miller—a single New Yorker who has unwittingly become the third wheel in her roommate’s romantic relationship—has the misfortune of witnessing a stranger commit suicide by jumping in front of a subway train. Haunted by the emptiness she glimpsed in the woman’s eyes, and her inability to stop the act despite her proximity to it, Shay becomes preoccupied with the victim’s identity—ER nurse Amanda Evinger—and decides to pay her respects by attending a public memorial. This impulsive gesture necessitates meeting Amanda’s friends, including sisters Cassandra and Jane Moore, and fabricating a story about how she and Amanda were acquainted. But once the first lie is told others immediately follow.

More: John Valeri’s review of An Anonymous Girl by Greer & Sarah

On the surface, the Moore sisters are everything Shay wishes she could be—self-assured, sophisticated, stylish career women who have cultivated a small circle of female friends. So when they begin lavishing attention and presents on her, she’s too flattered to question their motives. Soon, Shay’s got a new look, a new job, a new apartment, a new romantic suitor. . . and a gnawing suspicion that something’s not quite right. The more Shay’s life begins to mirror Amanda’s, the more she loses her sense of self. It’s only after things take a dramatic turn (hello, NYPD!) that she begins to reconsider her association with the sisters in earnest. Are they simply being supportive of her ambitions or are they setting her up? And, if so, for what? Shay will have to go on the offensive if she wants to clear her name—and, quite possibly, save her life.

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As with their previous novels, the authors shift viewpoints and timeframes frenetically throughout the narrative, effectively keeping readers off-balance while proffering bits of backstory that eventually reveal a whole, and wholly disturbing, picture. The segments featuring Amanda are particularly powerful, as they juxtapose her initial promise with her ultimate demise. Taken in conjunction with Shay’s account of her own peril (which includes relevant statistical extracts from her Data Books), you can’t help wondering if they’ll share the same fate—a lingering question that drives the plot forward. The Moores (and their carefully chosen girlfriends) have histories and obsessions, too, and it’s their unraveling will lead to the inevitable downfall. But whose?

You Are Not Alone is a seductive mind-bender of a story in which everybody’s primary MO is manipulation—including the authors’. In a world where conformity breeds caution, this book serves as a reminder that friendship and fitting in can be entirely different things. It’s funny—but perhaps fitting—that somebody with an affinity for numbers (like Shay) would forget this simple probability: If it seems too good to be true, it most likely is. Fortunately for readers, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen appear to be an exception to the rule.

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You Are Not Alone (Hendricks)

You Are Not Alone   Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, 2019 St. Martin's Press 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9781250202031 Summary Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it all together, and they invite her with the promise: "You are not alone." Why not align herself with the glamorous and seductive Moore sisters, Cassandra and Jane? They seem to have beaten back their demons, and made a life on their own terms—a life most people can only ever envy. They are everything Shay aspires to be, and they seem to have the keys to getting exactly what they want. As Shay is pulled deeper and deeper under the spell of the Moore sisters, she finds her life getting better and better. But what price does she have to pay? What do Cassandra and Jane want from her? And what secrets do they, and Shay, have that will come to a deadly confrontation? You are not alone: Is it a promise? Or a threat? ( From the publisher .)

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Submitting a book for review, write the editor, you are here:, you are not alone.

In their prior suspense novels, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen have explored the potential toxicity of women’s relationships, particularly where they involve envy and power imbalances. They pick up and build on these themes again in their third novel, YOU ARE NOT ALONE, possibly their most intense collaboration to date.

At the opening of the book, protagonist Shay Miller is spinning her wheels. She’s doing temp work after losing her job as a data analyst, and living with her best friend (and secret crush) --- even though he breaks her heart every day with his serious girlfriend --- because she can’t afford to move anywhere else in New York City. And then, as if things aren’t bad enough, Shay witnesses a young woman, about her age, commit suicide by leaping in front of a subway train.

"As Cassandra and Jane tighten their stranglehold around Shay, readers will be cheering for Shay to see through their illusions and champion the facts she values so much."

Shay is more than a little shaken by the experience --- she can no longer ride the subway, among other things --- and is increasingly curious about what could have led the woman to take her own life. Shay, who likes to jot down statistics and data points in her so-called Data Book, soon learns that the woman’s name is Amanda. Without really knowing why, she decides to attends Amanda’s memorial service.

There she is taken under the wing of Cassandra and Jane Moore, beautiful sisters who were close friends of Amanda’s. They seem to take a keen interest in Shay, and when they run into one another again a few days later, they strike up a friendship with her. Shay, who is more than a bit lonely, is immediately flattered by the attention and grateful to the sisters for their many kindnesses to her. What’s more, friendship with Cassandra and Jane appears to bring Shay luck. First, a well-paying job lands, seemingly out of the blue. Then, her online dating prospects start looking up. And finally, she finds the perfect apartment --- and one she amazingly can actually afford. As readers learn, however --- and as Shay herself will abruptly discover --- there’s more to Cassandra, Jane and Amanda’s other friends than meets the eye.

In Hendricks and Pekkanen’s narrative, chapters alternate viewpoints among Shay, Cassandra and Jane, and the other women in their friend group. Readers also gain instinct into their backstories --- including Amanda’s final days --- and the circumstances that brought them together. At times, the secondary characters’ voices lack individuality, though readers will come to differentiate all the characters more readily as the story progresses. As Cassandra and Jane tighten their stranglehold around Shay, readers will be cheering for Shay to see through their illusions and champion the facts she values so much.

Reviewed by Norah Piehl on March 6, 2020

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

• Publication Date: February 2, 2021
• Genres: Fiction , Psychological Suspense , Psychological Thriller , Suspense , Thriller
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• ISBN-10: 1250310962
• ISBN-13: 9781250310965

You are not Alone: A Book Review

You are not Alone , by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen: A Book Review

You are not Alone is on a bazillion bestseller and best of lists, and I completely see why. I’ll write on but what you really need to know is that no matter your preferred genre, you should give this book a read. Shay Miller is a fit, fierce working girl in New York City, living with a male roommate with whom she is in love. He has begun a new relationship, though, and her life is seemingly stalled. She works a temp job. She works out. She has no real girlfriends to hang out with, and she is lonely. One night, she is standing on a subway platform in NYC and sees a woman about her age, Amanda, jump to her death in front of an incoming subway train. Everything changes for Shay in that moment.

She begins to do the things you’re supposed to do after a traumatic event. She seeks therapy. She seeks help from several of the woman she meets at Amanda’s memorial service. Although they’re extremely welcoming to Shay, they’re instantly suspicious of her connection with Amanda, because they hold a dangerous secret that they’d hoped died with her.

The authors let the reader know, right up front, that Amanda’s friends, sisters Cassandra and Jane Moore, and their friends Valerie and Daphne, are up to something. We know from the start that they are holding on to this dangerous secret and they are curious to find out what Shay knows. As they become further and further entangled with Shay, their intentions become far more sinister. They begin to encourage her to makeover her look, her job, where she lives, and the whole time they’re remaking her in the image of their deceased friend, Amanda.

I’ll stop there, as I do not give spoilers. When I finished reading the book, I really admired how the authors were able to weave such fine details into the mystery without using many of the overdone tropes you find in mystery novels, where characters miss obvious connections or just fail to notice that something horrible is going on. Shay Miller is smart. Nothing gets by her for long, and when she finds out she has been wronged, she does not lie down and take it lightly.

The plot of this book is beautifully executed, and I really enjoyed the entire read from the very beginning. Highly recommend, 5/5 stars.

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The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US and AN ANONYMOUS GIRL return with a brand new novel of psychological suspense.Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely.Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better.Shay would die for them to like her. She may have to.

“Bestselling duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen write an edge-of-your-seat, gripping story about what follows when these–and many other–lives intersect in tragedy.” –Good Morning America Online

“The writing team behind An Anonymous Girl and The Wife Between Us proves their prowess yet again with another wildly compelling psychological thriller. This one starts with a circle of friends and unravels in an escalating series of hairpin twists and turns.” –Newsweek

“The number one New York Times –bestselling writing duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (coauthors of The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl ) are back. Their new thriller is about a circle of friends with some suspect intentions. Twist, twist, twist..” –goop

“ You Are Not Alone is a wild ride, and you’re going to love it. Nobody writes twisted psychological thrillers quite like these two.” –HelloGiggles

“ You Are Not Alone is the third novel to be co-written by Hendricks and Pekkanen, a duo quickly becoming known for their sharp plot twists and cadre of fully formed female characters. The novel follows a young, isolated New Yorker who happens to witness a subway death—and later finds herself enmeshed in the warm, loving company of the dead girl’s friends. She feels like she’s finally thriving…until the dominoes begin to fall.” – Marie Claire

“VERDICT: Dynamic duo Hendricks and Pekkanen ( The Wife Between Us ) bat another one out of the park with this unputdownable, highly recommended thrill ride.” — Library Journal (starred review)

“Hendricks and Pekkanen unfold another one of their intricately plotted, female-focused thrillers. Lots of frenzied flipping back and forth for readers who like to figure out the puzzle.” – Kirkus

“Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists…major league suspense.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Masterfully escalates the suspense…keep[s] the reader guessing until the end. A great follow-up.” ― Booklist (starred review)

“Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves…Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen seem to have mastered the formula…a creepy-crawly tale.” ―New York Times Book Review

“ You Are Not Alone thrives on its twists and realistic tension.” — South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! One of Newsweek 's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of HelloGiggles’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020 One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020 One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020 The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US and AN ANONYMOUS GIRL return with a brand new novel of psychological suspense, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her. She may have to.

• Print length 352 pages
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Praise for Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen: "Dynamic duo Hendricks and Pekkanen bat another one out of the park with this unputdownable, highly recommended thrill ride." ― Library Journal (starred review) "Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Masterfully escalates the suspense...keep[s] the reader guessing until the end. A great follow-up." ― Booklist (starred review) “Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves...Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen seem to have mastered the formula...a creepy-crawly tale.” ― New York Times Book Review

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (March 3 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250202035
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250202031
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 522 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.08 x 3.48 x 24.33 cm
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Sarah pekkanen.

Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of four novels of suspense including THE GOLDEN COUPLE and THE WIFE BETWEEN US, and the solo author of the thriller GONE TONIGHT, will be published Aug. 1, 2023. Colleen Hoover says it is "Riveting, original and powerful. I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet!"

Sarah is also the author of eight USA Today and internationally-bestselling solo novels: THE OPPOSITE OF ME, SKIPPING A BEAT, THESE GIRLS, THE BEST OF US, CATCHING AIR, THINGS YOU DON'T SAY, THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS and THE EVER AFTER. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages.

In her free time, Sarah is a dedicated volunteer for rescue animals and serves as Ambassador for RRSA India, working hands-on to vaccinate and heal street dogs in Anand, India. She also volunteers weekly for a horse rescue group in Maryland, mucking stalls and helping mistreated horses heal.

Sarah lives just outside of Washington, D.C. with her family. Please follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram @sarahpekkanen and visit www.sarahpekkanen.com

Greer Hendricks

GREER HENDRICKS is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Wife Between Us, An Anonymous Girl, You Are Not Alone, and The Golden Couple. Hendricks earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and spent nearly two decades working at Simon & Schuster, where she served as vice president and senior editor. More of her writing has been published in the New York Times, Allure, and Publishers Weekly, among others. “A Show of Faith” is her solo debut. Stay up to date on Hendricks’s projects at www.greerhendricks.com.

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Book Review – You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

April 7, 2021 By Maryse 2 Comments

I’m all about vigilante stories but this one became a little obnoxious. At some point it just got so… night soap opera-y (in regards to cunning villains and the lengths they’ll go to, to get what they want), that it exhausted me. Also, there was some eye-rolling. I couldn’t help it. 🙄 😂

It took me awhile to read, despite it being intriguing for the most part, probably because of the multiple POV changes as we get to know each of the characters and how they became a part of this “girl group”. So I’d put it down, take a break but always pick it back up.

Tasha J: I’m so behind though, I feel like I’m stuck reading the same books forever. Like, all the books I pick up are 400, 500+ pages. And it seems daunting. Maryse: I’m still reading You Are Not Alone and enjoying it, but same for me… I’m stuck at the last quarter and I just need to power through. It’s a tiny bit slow through the middle because we go back and learn about each girl in the group and how she was chosen for the group. Which is good, and slowly builds answers but pulls me out of the main story regularly. Tasha J: Yes! There’s so much going on and I have to read and reread a lot bc it’s so different and there are a lot of characters and things to keep up with and I can’t just get sucked in and power through.

Yep. I powered though, especially because I loved being in our heroine’s head as she blossomed from a meek, unobtrusive and even a bit fearful woman (with a slight but interesting OCD – she loves statistics and facts), to suddenly becoming one of the most recent popular girls amongst a group of women that she looked up to, and that seemed to really like her back.

So what’s it about?

Shay has been living with her guy best friend (that she has an unrequited crush on),

Sean’s the first guy I really liked since I ended things with my college boyfriend. I began to fall for Sean months ago. I thought he felt the same.

and she’s needing a job, and she’s pretty much down in the dumps, especially when he moves his new girlfriend in with them. She knows things need to change but luck is not quite with her.

Lately it seems like the stats are against me: I’m thirty-one years old, and I’m not dating anyone. When my boss called me into his office last month, I thought I was getting promoted. Instead, he told me I was being downsized. It’s like I’m caught in a slow spiral. I’m fighting as hard as I can to turn things around.

When she witnesses a woman jump in front of a train in the subway station, she develops a severe phobia, but also, an incredible preoccupation with her,

I keep berating myself for not doing something differently. I should have reached out to grab her or yelled “Don’t!” sooner. When I spotted the woman with the pleasant face, I only thought about how she could save me. But I should have been the one to save her. My room feels like it’s closing in on me in the darkness.

…trying to find out who she was and why she jumped.

One second she existed, and the next, she’d been erased. I stagger over to a bench by the wall and collapse. During everything that follows—while I give my statement to a police detective with an impassive face, am escorted past the crime-scene tape up to the street, and walk the seven blocks home—I can’t stop seeing the woman’s eyes right before she jumped. It wasn’t despair or fear or determination I saw in them. They were empty.

And then she meets her friends…

Suddenly I don’t want to leave. It’s no longer about the connection I feel toward Amanda. It’s the connection I want to feel with her friends.

And her luck turns around.

And that’s where I’m ending this section. 😉 Because each part develops slowly, as do the characters.

The development of each layer as the story progressed (and regressed) was interesting enough to keep me reading, and I had no real idea how she was going to get herself out of this. I mean… logically I did (I don’t think I would have let it all get that far – but hindsight is always 20/20), but our heroine was in too deep, and well… it’s a cast of craziness, so I just went with it.

Are they good? Are they bad? Good reasoning or…? You know me I’m always up for vigilante justice ( fictional , that is!! 😉 ), but there’s so much more to uncover in this one.

3.75 stars <— Normally I think I’d give this 4 stars, but I loved 2 other books by these authors so much more, so this one can’t get the same rating from me, unfortunately.

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Great review! And good on you to power through. I have not. 😂 But I will! I’m taking a break. I want to be in it and I can’t right now. I’m reading The Hunting Wives instead.🤞It hits the spot.

Now I WANT that “hit the spot”!!!!!

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You Are Not Alone by Cariad Lloyd review – the mourning after

In this moving and funny meditation on loss, the host of the award-winning podcast Griefcast argues that shared stories are an effective response to death

T he Victorians, as the comedian Cariad Lloyd points out in her touching new book, were deadly serious about death. Bereaved families tied black bows to their doors. People wore armbands and veils after losing a loved one – a public show of internal pain. And memento mori – including photographs of corpses – were hung in homes as gruesome reminders that we all die. There’s a theory that the first world war shattered these customs – the loss was too monumental and so the culture around dying became much more private, cloistered, lonely.

Perhaps, writes Lloyd, that’s why we’re often so ill-prepared when loved ones die: we’ve lost touch with time-honoured ways of working through grief, both collectively and individually. To her credit, she is doing her bit to try to change that. Having lost her father to cancer when she was 15, she’s spent years grappling with her sorrow (“a huge, swirling, tangled ball of wires – like the worst headphone knot you have ever seen”).

Lloyd tells the tale of her long-term reaction to loss (“pain all over the floor, like I’d wet myself”), interspersed with homespun advice. There’s no right or wrong way to grieve, she says, sweetly telling us how “badly” she handled it all: dropping out of therapy after one session, bottling things up and refusing to get professional help, no matter how unhappy she became. What eventually helped her was hearing other people talking about death and coming to realise she was now a member of a “club”. “Once I realised how full the club was, my grief-mess became a little lighter. I could see my grief as part of the human process… I could see it as part of living.”

Lloyd wants to help others by sharing stories about loss and mourning. As she puts it: “Every time we allow death to be discussed… we will learn.” Easier said than done. For lots of good reasons, people prefer not to talk about it. Lloyd quotes the Rev Richard Coles, who lost his partner: “There’s a sort of impatience with mourning, because it’s boring. Grief is boring.”

Luckily, Lloyd couldn’t be dull if she tried. Her award-winning podcast, Griefcast , tackles death with vitality and humour – and the same goes for her book. Her comic tone is a world away from the cold beauty of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking or the hard-fought spiritualism of Harold Kushner’s When Bad Things Happen to Good People . Stylistically, Lloyd’s book is more like Nora Ephron’s autobiographical novel Heartburn – funny and plain-speaking about personal devastation, with practical tips at the end of each chapter.

The most impassioned section deals with the cultural weight of the famous “five stages of grief” (anger, denial, etc), which Lloyd thinks has created a sort of procrustean bed that people find themselves unable to fit into, leaving them ashamed for not “doing grief right”. You only have to look around the world to see that she is on to something and there may be healthier ways of dealing with loss than our culture allows.

Last year, in the aftermath of a family bereavement, I went to Indonesia. Soon after I arrived, there was a festival in a little village nearby. The graves of the local people who had died over the past 10 years were dug up and the bodies, in various states of decomposition and decay, were piled up and burned in a ceremony attended by the entire community – then the ashes were thrown out to sea from the bulwarks of colourful wooden boats. It sounds ghoulish, but it was actually joyful and overwhelmingly communal.

What Lloyd wants us to recognise is just how individualised mourning is and to understand that the grieving process never really ends – it just morphs. “You don’t get over it… There’s a peace but there’s not an ending.” Wise words and much like the book as a whole, a reminder that death touches every family, and we’re better off dealing with it together than alone.

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When Lady Astor was breathing her last, a large group of family and friends gathered around the bed to see her off. Just before she departed this life, she snapped awake and looked around and said, “Is this my birthday, or am I dying?”

Well, don’t tell me.

The scene here bears some resemblances to hers. I look out and see my dear wife, Catherine, and my oldest and best friends, and others who’ve come into our life in later years, even as I still vividly recall the laughing, never-to-be-forgotten faces of two beloved friends who left our company too soon, George Crile and Edward McIlvain. I have been lucky, blessed, really, in family and friendship, and in too many other ways to describe here.

The Irish painter John Yeats, the poet’s father, described the making of art as the social act of a solitary person. Actually, he said “a solitary man.” They talked like that then. Anyway, I nodded in recognition when I came across that line. Maybe Hemingway could write in a crowded café, but I and the other artists and writers I’ve known have had to be shut away somewhere, out of the human stream, to get our work done. Yet as the years have frosted and mowed this head of mine, I have come to a different understanding of the situation. You may have retreated to your attic studio, you may even have pulled up the ladder behind you, but you were not alone. Never.

Case in point:

When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher became exasperated with my mulish refusal to learn cursive. I liked to print my words, so that they looked like the ones in the books I read. Finally, Mrs. Post sent me home with a note to my mother, telling her that I would not be allowed to return to school until I learned to write in cursive. My mother did not need this complication. She was raising me alone, in a small apartment above a garage, working on her feet all day at a Dairy Queen. By the time she got home and finished making dinner she was ready to put those aching feet up and lean back with a book. Now she had to spend her evenings teaching me how to … well, write .

This is how she did it: she started with the “quick brown fox,” and when that became unbearably tedious she chose passages from the books I’d borrowed from the library: Lassie Come-Home ; Old Yeller ; Jack London’s White Fang and Call of the Wild ; Lad: A Dog , or another volume of Albert Payson Terhune’s many-volumed testaments to his love of collies. You see a pattern here. I wanted a dog. So: passage chosen, my mother adjusted the pencil just so in my fingers, then put her hand on mine and guided hand and pencil over the page, copying the chosen passage in her beautiful script that I could never duplicate, though damned if I didn’t finally learn to stitch letters together, and make recognizable if unlovely words and sentences, until I was allowed back into the classroom. And to this day, when I write in longhand, I sometimes stop and remember those nights, and the feeling of my mother’s hand on mine. 

Some years later I received a scholarship—preposterously undeserved, but that’s another story—to a rigorous boarding school in Pennsylvania. I spent the summer before school began with my brother Geoffrey. We had not seen each other in six years. He had just graduated summa cum laude in English from Princeton, and was shocked to discover that I couldn’t write an essay, not really. I’d been skating by in a rural high school in Washington State, the classrooms full, the teachers overwhelmed. Late as the day was, my brother took my education in hand. He assigned books for me to read, and essays to write on those books while he was at work, and then he went over my essays when he got home. He was both demanding and kind, his red pencil unsparing but also, often enough, encouraging. So did this young man with plans of his own give his summer nights to his little brother, hoping to get him launched with some hope of success. In this way his hand joined my mother’s hand on mine, helping me make words, helping me make a life.

I could go on. Each of us here tonight has known something like what I describe. We are all the beneficiaries of others’ gifts of knowledge and talent, patience and time. And those gifts never stop coming, not as long as we can read a book—for a book is made of just those gifts.

As I said, we’re never alone.

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A Most Anticipated Book of 2020: Newsweek, SheReads, PopSugar, HelloGiggles One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020 One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020 The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US and AN ANONYMOUS GIRL return with a brand new novel of psychological suspense, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her. She may have to.

• Print length 368 pages
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Praise for Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen: "Dynamic duo Hendricks and Pekkanen bat another one out of the park with this unputdownable, highly recommended thrill ride." ― Library Journal (starred review) "Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Masterfully escalates the suspense...keep[s] the reader guessing until the end. A great follow-up." ― Booklist (starred review) “Psychological suspense is a genre that needs to be handled with kid gloves...Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen seem to have mastered the formula...a creepy-crawly tale.” ― New York Times Book Review

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Griffin; Reprint edition (February 2, 2021)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250310962
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250310965
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.38 x 0.92 x 8.13 inches
• #1,702 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
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GREER HENDRICKS is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Wife Between Us, An Anonymous Girl, You Are Not Alone, and The Golden Couple. Hendricks earned her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and spent nearly two decades working at Simon & Schuster, where she served as vice president and senior editor. More of her writing has been published in the New York Times, Allure, and Publishers Weekly, among others. “A Show of Faith” is her solo debut. Stay up to date on Hendricks’s projects at www.greerhendricks.com.

Sarah Pekkanen

Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of four novels of suspense including THE GOLDEN COUPLE and THE WIFE BETWEEN US, and the solo author of the thriller GONE TONIGHT, will be published Aug. 1, 2023. Colleen Hoover says it is "Riveting, original and powerful. I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet!"

Sarah is also the author of eight USA Today and internationally-bestselling solo novels: THE OPPOSITE OF ME, SKIPPING A BEAT, THESE GIRLS, THE BEST OF US, CATCHING AIR, THINGS YOU DON'T SAY, THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS and THE EVER AFTER. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages.

In her free time, Sarah is a dedicated volunteer for rescue animals and serves as Ambassador for RRSA India, working hands-on to vaccinate and heal street dogs in Anand, India. She also volunteers weekly for a horse rescue group in Maryland, mucking stalls and helping mistreated horses heal.

Sarah lives just outside of Washington, D.C. with her family. Please follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram @sarahpekkanen and visit www.sarahpekkanen.com

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