I think this may be my favorite Alice Feeney since Sometimes I Lie. This was a BANANAS thriller with layers and layers of deceptions and plots and motivations, and I devoured it. If you read a lot of mysteries and thrillers it can be absolutely fun to be able to be swept away in a story that you cannot predict the various twists and turns. I really enjoyed Birdie and her humor, making her one of the more fun characters to come from a Feeney story. It's also fun when you're kept guessing as to whether there is a degree of the uncanny at work.
As is often the case in her novels there is plenty of truly heartbreaking backstories, and it will be worth looking at trigger warnings.

𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒕. 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍. 𝑰𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌. 𝑵𝒐 𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓.

You may desperately want to, but you can't inhale an Alice Feeney thriller because her twists are so subtle, so cleverly implanted in the narrative, you will surely miss something if you proceed at full throttle.

This is another atmospheric, hypnotic thriller set near the sea with an idyllic yet vaguely mysterious home, Spyglass. The uneasiness sets in right away with artist Eden Fox, who has recently moved to Spyglass with her husband. She goes on a run to clear her head before her first big exhibition later that night. When she returns home, she finds that her key doesn't fit. She's confused but not worried...until a woman who looks just like her answers the door. The doppelganger is soon joined by Eden's husband Harrison, who insists Eden is the interloper.

Six months earlier, Birdy receives a devastating diagnosis and unexpected fortune all in one fell swoop--she inherits Spyglass as a gift from her estranged grandmother. But when Birdy finds a hand-delivered letter in her grandmother's possession from a London clinic named Thanatos, she's shocked to find that the letter accurately predicted the date of her grandmother's death.

The two storylines converge in a way that is both utterly shocking and deliciously clever. Nothing is as it seems, and you will be thinking about this story long after you finish the final page. Many thanks to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for this early copy. Look for this one January 20, 2026.