A brilliantly conceived, deeply unsettling psychological thriller already an international sensation about a woman haunted by secrets, the consuming desire for revenge, and the terrible price we pay when we try to hide the truth. Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew and that person is dead. Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine s world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day . . . even if the shocking truth might destroy her."