What an amazing thriller this had so many twists and turns I felt like I was on a rollercoaster and I love a good plot twist fantastic

A great psychological thriller that really kept me reading until the early hours fabulous

Thank you Netgalley for a copy for an honest review

Her Every Fear wasn’t a good read it was a completely brilliant and awesome read. I devoured this book in one day.

Thanks to NetGalley and Faber & Faber for the ARC of this book.

The book follow Kate an anxious English woman with a traumatic past who does a house swap with her American cousin, Corbin, and goes to stay in his expensive Boston apartment. Soon one of her neighbours turns up dead things take a dark turn.

I found this book a bit more difficult to get into than other Peter Swanson books, but once I got past the beginning few chapters, I managed to get into it. I’m not overly fond of neurotic protagonists and they tend to make stupid decisions. However, Kates neurosis was validated as pretty much every man in this book turns out to be a psychopath.

The story is fairly far-fetched, but I did enjoy the setting. This felt like one of Peter Swanson’s more pedestrian efforts and lacked his usual twists and surprises.

Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

Kate and the guys.
Romantic novel with several suitors? Boy, no.
A stalker, a psychopath, a murderer. Or more combinations?

British girl Kate Priddy tries her wings after spending a couple of years in fear after the attack of her psychopatic ex-boyfriend. So she surprises herself to agree to a flat swap for 6 months - and in U.S., no less, with the cousin she had never met yet. Her cousin Corbin's flat is nice and all would be fine - but there is a girl in the hall in fears about her AWOL friend and Kate suddenly knows that the missing girl has been murdered. Sure, Kate is a worrier - but this time she is right.
But why Audrey Marshall had to die? And who knows the truth - her cousin? Her neighbour Alan? Audrey's friend Jack?

This is noir, atmospheric novel with a movie feeling - one can vividly imagine all the creepy sounds and blur jet-lag (or not?) moments which are well-described here. The animal in you knows that you are watched, as one of the characters say. And I will never consider the seemingly locked door as the invincible gate to my privacy again!

So if you are into the atmospheric psychopath novels with convincing evil characters, this is your book.
But I am the one who is more into the sleuthing in process, the effort to find the truth, and I am missing that here. The movie again comes to mind when thinking about the "settings" of this novel - it is more the play between the characters who are taking the chapters by showing their points of view and explaining their motives. The plot is build on the emotions/background of the characters, not on the inditions and facts. But one needs to believe the premise of the novel - and this can make or break the reading experience here.
But if you are into this set-up, this is a good thriller. I am not - but this is a personal preference, not objective argument. And if you like this kind of genre, I believe you will enjoy it, as Mr Swanson is a good writer.

This is the second book I have read by Peter Swanson, the first being The Kind Worth Killing which was utterly superb and one of my favourite books of 2015.

Her Every Fear is a standalone psychological thriller with a really creepy edge.  The main character Kate is an emotionally damaged young woman who due to a horrific attack in her past suffers (understandably) from anxiety and panic attacks.  When she bravely agrees to a 6 month house swap  with a cousin she has never met in Boston the story starts to unfold into a tense, creepy and uneasy but essentially gripping plot.

There are quite a few characters involved in telling this story, all of whom have secrets and rather dark obsessions and when Kate arrives in Boston and her next door neighbour is found brutally murdered it quickly becomes apparent that there are several suspects including her cousin.  

This is another clever and tense thriller from Peter Swanson with some really unlikable characters and some brilliant twists and turns.   I still prefer The Kind Worth Killing, but this was an enjoyable thriller.

This is a brilliant, pacy and engrossing read. The characterisation was very skilful with enough of a backstory to draw you in but at the same time enough withheld to make you keep turning the pages lone after - well, in my case, long after your husband starts yelling at you for leaving dishes unwashed and the beds unmade
The situation is one we can all empathise with. The question being - what would you do in Kate's situation? Kate and Alan were fantastic characters with enough complexity to keep you on your toes and enough familiarity to make you think that this might - just might - happen to someone just like you. I loved the settings too which really drew me in. I unhesitatingly recommend that you grab a copy for yourself and enjoy it this winter. Personally I can't wait for his next one
This book was received via @Netgalley in return for an honest and balanced review. I'm going to buy it for lots of people - if you're one of the lucky ones, clear your diary as you'll really want to dedicate some uninterrupted time to this fab read :)

Peter Swanson shows the readers that you can never really hide from your past:

Kate Priddy always had bouts of anxiety, but things are taken to the next level when her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and left her to die after killing himself. Kate never thought that she would recover both mentally and physically after what happened to her but she wants to try. When she is accepted in to an art program in Boston, her distant cousin Corbin Dell suggests a flat switch for 6 months. kate really cannot say no. What Kate does not know is the Corbin is trying to fell Boston as she is London and when Kate/Corbin's Boston neighbour turns up dead, Kate has all these questions of who Corbin really is.

I really wanted to LOVE this book. It had such an interesting premise and I really enjoy when a main character has a flaw that is very real life and affects so many people out there but overall I found this book fell flat. This mainly had to do with how the story was told and which characters Swanson chose to have points of view from.

I liked the back and forth between the characters' points of view as well as the shifts from the past and present, but I think that this was also a major flaw in the book as it gave too much away as to what was occurring in the present. This made the book predictable and the major punch line about what was occurring not happen, as you're like "yep figured that out about half way through the book." And trust me it is really obvious.

Kate was the most interesting character in tis book. The paranoia and basically agoraphobia (not wanting to leave the house) that she has was a really interesting aspect to her character. I also liked the incorporation of having her as an artist to try and overcome these issues but they also contribute to them as well in this book. However, I wish that she was a more developed character and these aspects seem to get lost in the second half of the book and it is not due to her suddenly recovering.

Overall, Swanson's book was a miss for me. It had a great premise and great potential and I think executed in a different way I would have enjoyed it. This does not mean I will not read another book by Swanson, I can tell he has something there as an author, but as this is the first book I have read by him I am disappointed.

Cheers!!!

Another great read by this author. This is the second book of this author that I have read and won't be my last

I do love a good suspense novel and this one came with an interesting premise. Kate Priddy agrees to a transatlantic flat swap with her American cousin, Corbin, in an attempt to put behind her a recent trauma and to confront her long term anxiety. In typical suspense novel fashion nothing is that simple and within hours of arriving in Boston, Kate learns that one of her neighbours has been brutally murdered and her cousin is looking like a very likely suspect. Its an interesting book in that it gives each main character their own couple of chapters. I started this book thinking that it was all going to be Kate's story but that soon took a left turn and without giving too much away, even the most unpleasant characters in the book get a turn. I'm not sure how sympathetic the reader is supposed to be with some of the characters. There's one who has been spying on his deceased neighbour and has a history of voyeurism but this seems to be written off in the story as a cross between teenage curiousness and adult loneliness, explanations which felt rather dubious to me. As a thriller though it works very well, there's the appropriate twists and turns and a real page turner of an ending as not a word goes to waste. In short a very enjoyable genre read.

I received a free ARC from Netgalley in exchange for a fair review.

First novel I've read by Peter Swanson and enjoyed it although other people are saying his first book was better. Will be giving that a go.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

I don't quite know what it was about Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson that didn't quite do it for me. And I have thought long and hard about it since finishing this book yesterday.

I like Swanson's style of writing - it is very relaxed, soothing almost. And perhaps, therein lies the problem. This book should have oozed tension, creepiness, and it just didn't. There are all the ingredients of a good read. There are panic attacks, murder, stalking and lies. But there is something lacking.....

I haven't read any of this authors other work, although naturally, I have heard of him and his success. Perhaps I had too high an expectation based on this.

I enjoyed the read. I didn't love it, not even close.

Thank you to Faber and Faber via NetGalley fro providing a digital ARC of Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

I loved this book. It was easy to read and had a good pace to it.
Kate tries to get to the bottom of a crime her cousin Corbin may be involved in.
Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this.

Londoner Kate house swaps with her unknown Boston cousin Corbin for 6-months to recover, after being traumatised by her ex-boyfriend.
Only to be drawn straight into the murder of her cousin's neighbour Audrey, who he claims not to have known.
With the police asking to search Corbin's apartment and friendly neighbour Alan, disclosing Corbin + Audrey were in fact an item, and a feeling that she is not alone, Kate doesn't know what to believe and starts to feel scarily creeped out. An atmospheric suspense builds to a climax.

I received this free ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved Peter Swanson’s second novel A Kind Worth Killing, so needless to say I was excited to receive his new one.

I really enjoyed Her Every Fear and got through it in 3 sittings.

The characters were well developed (as I remembered in TKWK) and I liked that they weren’t just props in the story but they played an equal part in the makeup of the book. It is told in different character perspectives with events being retold in different character viewpoints. I could see how re-reading the same events could grow tiresome, but I enjoyed it.

With the lines between mystery, thriller and suspense being so blurred, I’m not sure how to properly classify this book.
Is it a mystery? Yes
Is it a thriller? Yes
Is it suspenseful? Yes
I think it started as a mystery with a slower pace to lay the foundation of the story but I do think it developed into a thriller/suspense with a quicker pace at the end.

Her Every Fear is includes elements like serial killers, psychopaths, and voyeurism to weave a book with a lot of moving pieces. There’s so many moving pieces that you start to worry it will all fall apart, but Peter Swanson really pulled it off.

i really loved this book from the very first page, what starts as a home swap two cousins kate priddy and Corbin dell with kate going to Boston and Corbin coming to London, as soon as kate gets to Corbin's now (kate's) apartment her neighbour Audrey has been found dead ( possibly) murdered! is it a coincidence that Corbin went to london just as Audrey was found dead or is that why he went! that's what kate wants to know and find out, meeting another neighbour Alan who has admitted to spying on Audery but is he capable of murder or is his only wrong spying? along with Corbin's trip to London where we find out his spent time in London when he was 18 and went to study there he also becomes friends with another american guy called Harry but is there friendship what it seems or is there more going on? what i liked most is that the story is told through each of the characters so you get to know each of them as the story build's up then entwined's to a shocking tense deadly conclusion! Her every fear is a creepy addictive book one that i could not put down and kept me up at night!! go and buy this book!! thank you to the publishers and netgalley for my copy :)

I liked this book a lot, the storyline was good and the characters were relatable.

I thought it was a bit of a gamble to show who "dunnit" half way through the book as after that obviously the game is up, but it didn't really affect my enjoyment! You never quite know who to trust and who not, which is all the fun. I thought Corbin was a strange guy and defo had something to hide (or did he?)....

I thought it was a creepy and well written book, I also enjoyed getting into the minds of the 4 main characters, though Kate did get on my nerves. It had a steady pace and not much action but this didn't detract from the book and I really enjoyed it, I would defo read more by this author.

I don’t get much contemporary American fiction coming my way so it was interesting to have the latest Peter Swanson to review. I had some preconceptions because of the inevitable hype around this book but found myself enjoying it a lot more than I expected.
Kate Priddy agrees to a six month house swap with Corbin Dell, a second cousin that she has never actually met. Exchanging her tiny little North London flat for a huge apartment in a nice suburb of Boston sounds like a great deal. Soon after she arrives she discovers that Corbin’s next door neighbour Audrey Marshall has been murdered. As the police start to investigate Kate can’t help them much as she doesn’t know Corbin at all.
As she gets to know the other neighbours she realises that he has lied to her when she said that he barely knew Audrey. Struggling with jetlag and her own paranoia Kate doesn’t know where to turn and who to trust. All she is sure of is that nothing is exactly as it seems. Kate has her own demons – literally – and the pressure of the situation makes her feel like everything is falling apart. The ghost of George looms large and all of her fears are about to be realised again.
Three stars seems a little harsh but four may be a bit too generous. It’s a good story with an interesting twist but it wasn’t really the story that I was expecting it to be. About halfway in, the book becomes something very different and akin to an episode of Criminal Minds rather than the story it had previously been. More like Miss Marple gets taken over by Hannibal Lecter. I found the ending to be a bit unsatisfying but that might just be me.
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I've read Peter Swanson's previous two novels and he just seems to be getting better and better. This story is about Kate Priddy who does a house swap with her cousin Corbin. He will spend six months in London and she will spend the time in Boston in his appartment. Peter Swanson creates a perfect backdrop for a house swap nightmare. It has definitely put me off this sort of holiday!!!
However as Kate herself says she also comes with "baggage" and is trying to get her life back after an horrific incident that happened when she was a student. The reader feels sympathy for her situation, particularly after the author reveals what has happened to her.
Kate moves into Corbin's flat and then she discovers something awful has happened to Corbin's neighbour, Audrey. Is Corbin involved.? Kate always fears the worst due to her nature as well as the earlier trauma she has suffered.
The story is told from Kate's point of view at first. Then after a bit we get a section that deals with Corbin and his friend Henry. We also hear from Alan, another resident of the appartment building. Alan has been spying on Audrey through his window and he seems rather creepy at first. As the story progresses all become suspects in the murder. The reader cannot decide who the guilty party is.
The author builds up the tension well and I kept turning the pages, desperate to find out what was going to happen. I felt really sorry for Kate as she'd moved to the USA to escape her past but seemed to have walked out of the frying pan into the fire.
Most of the action was set in Boston, a city the author seemed to know well. Some of the plot was also set in London and that had been well researched. I liked the way that there were two settings as it made the story more interesting.
I would thoroughly recommend this book and have given it a five star review. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for my advance copy in exchange for an honest opinion.