Sydney Shaw has endured every variety of bad date New York can produce, so a charming doctor who seems genuinely decent feels like a reward rather than a warning.
Freida McFadden builds the novel in the gap between the man Sydney believes she has found and the killer police are hunting, someone who courts women before he murders them. The chapters move quickly between reassurance and doubt, and the growing sense that her routine is being tracked turns a promising romance into a closing trap. What emerges is a compact suspense novel about obsession and the excuses people make in the name of love.
Why it earns a place on the shelf:
• A dating-world setup that turns into a serial-killer investigation
• Short chapters engineered for late-night, one-more-page reading
• A narrator whose judgement the reader is invited to question
• Written by the author behind The Teacher and the Housemaid novels
Recommended for readers of contemporary psychological suspense and for anyone working through McFadden's thrillers in order. Stocked at Boipoka.