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Find Me by J.S. Monroe

Find Me

by J.S. Monroe

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  • Mar 2017, 400 pages
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A sighting of a woman who supposedly died years ago sparks a desperate search for the truth in this breakout suspense thriller, perfect for readers of The Good Girl and The Widow.

Sometimes we choose to see only what we want. Sometimes what we see changes the way we look at everything… 

Jarlath "Jar" Costello's girlfriend, Rosa, committed suicide when they were both students at Cambridge, and Jar has thought about her every day since. It's been five years, yet Jar is still obsessed with the idea that Rosa, the one true love of his life, is alive. He's tormented by disturbingly real sightings of her - experiences the psychologist treating him describes as "post-bereavement hallucinations." 

When Rosa's aunt uncovers an encrypted file on her laptop that she believes is Rosa's diary, she gives Jar the hard drive, sending him on a frantic quest to unlock the mysterious document and finally make sense of the suspicious circumstances surrounding Rosa's suicide. But the deeper he digs, the more confused he becomes as he is pressed into a dark underworld where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. When a startling discovery convinces him more than ever that these are not just hallucinations - that Rosa really is alive - Jar is thrust into the heart of a larger intrigue that may finally shed some light on Rosa's death…even as it dangerously threatens his own life.

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"Starred Review. Pacing is crisp and the plot is credible, but it's the cast of expertly crafted, psychologically ambiguous characters that rivets." - Publishers Weekly

"Smart, well written, and tangled in unpredictable twists-a top-notch psychological thriller." - Booklist

"Fast-paced, satisfying, and, ultimately, life-affirming." - Kirkus

"Find Me is a marvelously suspenseful book that keeps you turning pages well past midnight. You'll be riveted on what its very sympathetic narrator goes through to find the love of his life. ... You'll keep guessing until the final mind-bending twist." - Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of Coming of Age at the End of Days and Turn of Mind

"Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it." - Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go

"Find Me is gripping, pointing you toward the worst possibility on every page in this deeply sinister, drip-drip kind of way. And yet there is a lot of true love in there too, creating an endearing balance." - Caroline Kepnes, author of Hidden Bodies and You

"The most ingenious thriller you will read this year. I couldn't put it down." - M.J. Arlidge, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eeny Meeny

"This intricate puzzle of a thriller takes usinto the far reaches of the Dark Web and the depths of the human heart. Simultaneously romantic and horrifying, this is a treat for everyone who loved le Carre's The Constant Gardener." - Lucie Whitehouse, author of Before We Met and Keep You Close

"Beautifully written and expertly plotted, J.S. Monroe's Find Me had me hooked within the first chapter and Would. Not. Let. Me. Go. This is a captivating, utterly chilling read, the kind of thriller that will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime, and leave you wide awake long after you're done. First class." - Owen Laukkanen, author of The Stolen Ones and The Watcher in the Wall

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J.S. Monroe

J.S. Monroe, the writing name of a well-known British author and journalist, read English at Cambridge University, worked as a freelance journalist in London and was a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4. He was also a foreign correspondent in Delhi for the Daily Telegraph and was on its staff in London as weekend editor. He is the author of five other novels and lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and their three children.

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