Laura Sims 
Looker 
A Novel

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more* In this ‚;wicked slow burn‘ (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighborthe actress.Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between them. The actress, a celebrity with a charmed career, shares a gleaming brownstone with her handsome husband and three adorable children, while the recently separated narrator, unhappily childless and stuck in a dead-end job, lives in a run-down, three-story walk-up with her ex-husband’s cat. As her fascination with her famous neighbor grows, the narrator’s hold on reality begins to slip. Before long, she’s collecting cast-off items from the actress’s stoop and fantasizing about sleeping with the actress’s husband. After a disastrous interaction with the actress at the annual block party, what began as an innocent preoccupation turns into a stunningand irrevocableunraveling. A riveting portrait of obsession, Looker is ‚;a sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror‘ (The Wall Street Journal) and an immersive and darkly entertaining read‘;by the end you’ll be gasping‘ (People).