ISBN: 9780593356401
Editorial: Bantam
Autor: Sadowsky, Nina
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 320
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: You never know who’s watching. . . .A successful therapist’s world is upended when her patients are targeted by a campaign of twisted psychological harassment in this propulsive novel from the author of Convince Me.Dr. Laina Landers is good at her job. She’s an accomplished therapist, dedicated and compassionate. When she is summoned by a panicked patient who is being held hostage by her husband, she intervenes and dissuades him. Laina becomes a media sensation. But as her star rises, a target is placed on her back.Not everyone is impressed by Laina’s achievements. Someone has it in for her and is targeting what matters to her most: her patients. One by one, Laina’s patients spiral after they receive unsettling gifts that mock their deepest fears and hidden traumas. Liana’s own home is targeted, in a mysterious break-in where nothing is taken, but left behind is the same message sent to her patients: Watching you.Enlisting Cal Murray, an ambitious and charismatic investigative journalist to whom she has an explosive attraction, Laina must examine her patients’ lives and her own to identify the culprit. All she knows for sure? It’s someone with access to her records. Someone who wants to destroy her stellar reputation, shatter her newfound success, and even, perhaps, end her life.ReviewPraise for Privacy“Screenwriter and filmmaker Sadowsky gives readers a rapidly paced, suspenseful thriller that makes the most of such hot-buatton issues as privacy, professional ethics, media malfeasance, and race relations. This one seems bound for the big screen.”—BooklistPraise for Nina Sadowsky“Nina Sadowsky’s . . . voice is clear, her storytelling skills are remarkable, and her pacing is perfect.”—Sue Grafton“A master storyteller.”—New York Times bestselling author Wendy Walker“Every time you think you’ve unlocked the puzzle, Nina Sadowsky introduces a new twist that makes you start guessing all over again.”—New York Times bestselling author Michelle RichmondAbout the AuthorNina Sadowsky is an author, filmmaker, and educator. Her previous novels are Just Fall, The Burial Society, The Empty Bed, and Convince Me. She has written numerous screenplays and produced such films as The Wedding Planner. In addition to her role as program director of NYU Los Angeles, a "semester abroad" program for advanced students considering careers in the entertainment and media industries, Sadowsky also serves as the director of educational outreach for the Humanitas Prize, is on the leadership council of Creative Future, and is a founding member of the Woolfpack, an organization of women showrunners, writers, and producers committed to community and mentorship.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.CHAPTER ONEDaisy Sullivan had come into Dr. Laina Landers’s office already crying messy tears and they haven’t abated yet, forty-three minutes into the fifty-minute session.Daisy, a freelance graphic designer, had received a call from her bank that very morning. A woman with the unlikely name of Jupiter Sterling had apparently gotten ahold of Daisy’s tax return and had tried to cash the check for quarterly estimated taxes that Daisy had written to the government. Daisy had seen a scan of the check, with U.S. Treasury miraculously erased and replaced by Jupiter Sterling. The amount had been large enough for a savvy teller to twig, and Jupiter Sterling herself stupid enough to try to cash the check at Daisy’s bank using her real name and her own ID.The check was stopped. The credit agencies were notified. Jupiter Sterling is in custody. But none of these measures eases the sense of violation that consumes Daisy. Her Social Security number “is in the wind,” she’s sobbed repeatedly since entering Laina’s sanctuary. “I’m going to be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.”Laina’s calm face doesn’t give it away, but with seven minutes to go in the session, and despite her genuine sympath
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