Fear

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Praise for FEAR, the most original thriller of 2018 for fans of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW by A.J. Finn, LULLABY by Leila Slimani and ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL by Sarah Vaughan:

A terrific, original thriller, and a marvellous exploration of the psychology of menace - I loved it * JOANNE HARRIS * Five stars - as intellectually stimulating as it is gripping -- Jake Kerridge * DAILY TELEGRAPH * Wonderfully sinister. . . You'll never see your neighbours in the same light again * THE OBSERVER * Beautifully written, frightening and absorbing * THE TIMES * Something we've not seen before in contemporary crime fiction * GUARDIAN * Kurbjuweit takes you right into the heart of darkness * MAIL ON SUNDAY * I'm intrigued by Dirk Kurbjuweit's novel FEAR, about a stalker living downstairs * LIONEL SHRIVER, Observer's Best Holiday Reads 2017 * If you liked WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, try FEAR by Dirk Kurbjuweit... Claustrophobic and unsettling * BBC NEWS * [An] uncomfortably close-to-home thriller... A powerfully disturbing read * SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB * Its layers of paranoia and memories are brilliantly done to play on every parents' deepest fears - including mine * FIONA BARTON, bestselling author of THE WIDOW * Addictive... There's a twist at the end that is worth waiting for * INDEPENDENT * This creepy tale of obsession will make you wonder 'what would I do?' * SUNDAY MIRROR * FEAR shifts our moral codes. It makes us sympathetic to violent revenge, accessories to murder. Do we want the victim to survive? No, we don't. Long after I had put this book down I still didn't. A great achievement * HERMAN KOCH, bestselling author of THE DINNER * A must-have new read * DAILY EXPRESS * I loved it. So rich and claustrophobic. An unsettling tale of merciless self-scrutiny * RENEE KNIGHT, Sunday Times bestselling author of DISCLAIMER * A terrifying study of a family threatened by the tenant living downstairs * WOMAN & HOME * FEAR grips you from the get-go. A creeping, creepy and darkly-hued tale of family, fatherhood and failure, it is also a deliciously suspenseful thriller, an intelligent investigation into guilt and a superb slice of bourgeois domestic noir * STAV SHEREZ, author of A DARK REDEMPTION * Thought-provoking and intelligent, calling into question our own values when dealing with those on the fringes of society.. Genuinely chilling, and a compelling read * ELIZABETH HAYNES, bestselling author of INTO THE DARKEST CORNER * FEAR is a smart, psychologically complex and morally acute fable decked out in the garb of an intricate thriller... [and] a wry, complex, at times disturbing survey of middle-class life * SYDNEY MORNING HERALD * The most original thriller of the year * NETGALLEY * Highly original and chilling * BOOKRIOT.COM *