Liar, Dreamer, Thief

A young woman carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: Surreal . . . filled with technicolor lies and terrible truths (Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling and Hugoaward winning author).Most Anticipated by CrimeReads Good Housekeeping BookRiot Goodreads Bookish OverDriveAn Aardvark Book Club pickKatrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn a stalker. Her obsession with her coworker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanismslike her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed.But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she enacts the most powerful ritual she has to reclaim controla midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridgeand arrives just in time to witness Kurt suicide. Before he jumps, he slams her with a devastating accusation: his death is all her fault.Horrified, Katrina combs through the clues she collected about Kurt over the last three years, but each revelation uncovers a menacing truth: for every moment she was watching him, he was watching her. And the past she thought she left behind? It been following her more closely than she ever could have imagined.A gripping pageturner, as well as a sensitive exploration of mental health, Liar, Dreamer, Thief is an intimate portrayal of life in all its complexitiesand the dangers inherent in unveiling people most closely guarded secrets.