Booklist Editors' Choice!Called One of the Best Mystery Books by NPR Washington Post Crime
Reads Library Journal South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Dublin City Library!With this tip of
the hat to Stephen King's Misery Dream Girl is funny and suspenseful with a dread-worthy
final twist. -PeopleMy dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest clearest-eyed
take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling. -Megan Abbott Edgar Award-winning author
of Dare Me and The FeverFollowing up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times
bestseller Lady in the Lake Laura Lippman returns with a dark complex tale of psychological
suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist incapacitated by injury who is plagued by
mysterious phone calls.Aubrey the title character of Gerry Andersen's most successful novel
Dream Girl is so captivating that Gerry's readers insist she's real. Gerry knows she exists
only in hisimagination. So how can Aubrey be calling Gerry bed-bound since a freak fall? A
virtual prisoner in his penthouse Gerry is dependent on two women he barely knows: his
incurious young assistant and a dull slow-witted night nurse.Could the cryptic caller be one
of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot an
ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry's life?And why does no one
believe that the call even happened?Isolated from the world drowsy from medication Gerry
slips between reality and dreamlike memories: his faithless father his devoted mother the
women who loved him the women he loved.Now here is Aubrey threatening to visit him
suggesting that Gerry owes her something. Is the threat real or a sign of dementia? Which
scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone so confused - and so terrified.And
then he wakes up to another nightmare-a woman's dead body next to his bed-and the terrifying
uncertainty of whether he is responsible.
