Why we’re excited
Samantha works as a nurse and keeps a second occupation: she kills men who prey on others, because a death buys her quiet nights free of the sleepwalking that began when she was a teenager. The arrangement collapses when corpses appear that she cannot remember, just as a charming stranger takes an interest. The person she should fear may be herself, asleep.
Freida McFadden reached a huge audience with The Housemaid and its sequels, and doubting the narrator is her speciality. Choose this one for a compromised heroine and a plot built on missing memory.
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What to know about The Sleepwalker
Freida McFadden is a familiar name here: 18 of Freida McFadden’s books have full reviews, averaging 4.0 out of 5. Our favourite to date is The Tenant (4.5★); the most recent is Brain Damage.
From the publisher
A brand-new seductive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid!
She only kills bad men. At least, that's what she believes...
Samantha sleepwalks. Ever since she was traumatized by a cruel incident as a teenager, she's woken up with raw, bleeding fingertips, unexplained bruises, and memory gaps.
But after twenty years, she has learned how to control it. By day, Samantha is a nurse. By night, she has a deadly secret: when she kills, the sleepwalking stops and her nights grow quiet. Her victims are predators, abusers, men who deserve it. Or so she tells herself.
But when bodies begin to surface that she doesn't remember killing, and a darkly charming stranger enters her life, Sam is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: what if the most dangerous thing about her isn't what she does awake—but what she does while asleep?
Dark, twist-packed, and impossible to put down, The Sleepwalker is a psychological thriller about secrets, obsession, and how far we'll go to justify our darkest desires.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read The Sleepwalker yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
