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Pictures of You

Josh Malerman · Mystery & Thriller

36 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

psychological thrillerobsessive lovetwist ending
psychological thrillerdomestic thriller
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#350 All Time

About this book

A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist’s dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House. After a magical night out on the town with her fiancé Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve walls, and the deep, dark corners are nothing like the hotel she and Jack rented. More worrisome yet: Emily has no memory of this place from the night before. Where is she? A woman’s voice directs her to remain in bed. Just so . . . And beyond the end of the bed, a picture frame upon an easel—a frame with no canvas, no painting, no art. Only . . . there is the silhouette of a person Emily does not recognize. A person emanating demand, danger, evil. And the way the woman talks . . . and the things she says . . . She’s acting as if Emily herself is the painting. The still life. The art. Emily is as scared as she is confused. But it’s immediately clear Jack’s

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