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Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in her desperate search for every detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant. Bailey sees her attacker in the face of every stranger, and is unable to trust anyone other than her half-sister Claire, and Claire's snarky teenage daughter Jade.
To pass the time in her lonely apartment, Bailey plays with the binoculars she once used in her career as a private investigator, scanning the high-rise buildings around hers for entertainment. She quickly discovers her favorite source: a handsome, wealthy playboy in the apartment across the street. As she watches him strut around his apartment, she starts to wonder if he's putting on a show―with her as his intended. Looking out the window one night, she seems him looking tauntingly right back at her, binoculars in hand. Could it be the assailant she's been so desperate to identify has been right there, watching her, the whole time? The police believe she's crying wolf, and Claire tries to convince her she's wrong. Doubting her own sanity, Bailey only has Jade left to turn to, and together the two hatch a dangerous plot to discover just what exactly is going on in the apartment across the way.
Someone Is Watching (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series), by Joy Fielding- Amazon Sales Rank: #3151389 in Books
- Brand: Fielding, Joy
- Published on: 2015-03-26
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.20" h x 5.80" w x 8.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 597 pages
Review National Bestseller "A page-turning ride." —Kirkus Reviews"For more than 40 years now, Joy Fielding has been churning out blood-curdling bestsellers with staggering consistency. Her latest and 25th novel―Someone Is Watching―contains many of the Fielding signatures: a strong female heroine, an unknown evil-doer and a mystery that will keep you reading well past lights-out." ―The Globe and Mail
About the Author Joy Fielding is the New York Times bestselling author of Charley’s Web, Heartstopper, Mad River Road, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. This is what I remember: the warm night air, darkness as soft and inviting as a cashmere shawl, a gentle breeze brushing flirtatiously across the tops of the sweet-smelling shrubs in which I’m hiding, their coral flowers now folded in on themselves, closed to the dark. I’m vaguely aware of their faint aroma as I peer through my binoculars into Sara McAllister’s third-floor window, my knees aching from squatting so long in the same position, my toes cramping. It’s closing in on midnight, I’ve been here for hours, and irritability is curling around my consciousness like a hungry boa constrictor. I’m thinking that if I don’t see something—anything—soon, I’m going to call it a night.That’s when I hear it—the snap of a twig, perhaps, although I’m not certain, that signals someone behind me. I turn to look, but it’s already too late. A gloved hand quickly covers my mouth, blocking my screams. I taste leather—old, stale, earthy. And then, those hands, seemingly everywhere, on my shoulders, in my hair, snapping the binoculars from my fingers, as fists slam into my stomach and against the side of my head, causing the world around me to blur and the ground to give way beneath my feet. A pillowcase is pulled roughly over my face. I can’t breathe, and I panic. Keep your wits about you, I tell myself in an effort to regain my equilibrium and hold my growing terror at bay. Keep track of everything that’s happening.Except that everything is happening too fast. Even before the pillowcase is pulled into place, the white cotton overwhelming the blackness of the night, I see nothing but a vague shape. A man, certainly, but whether he is young or old, fat or thin, black or brown or white, I have no idea. Has the man I’ve been waiting for been waiting for me? Did he spot me hiding in the bushes and simply bide his time?
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Who's watching whom? By Sadie This fictional story is the first person account of rape and its aftermath. I'm not spoiling by saying a rape happens because it happens early on and is the basis for the rest of the novel. Initially, I was turned off by it and thought I'd struggle getting through the book. However, that was not the case. I found the story engrossing and had trouble putting it down.Bailey Carpenter is a private eye. Thanks to her deceased father, she's also extremely well off financially, which is important because it gives her the opportunity to hide away and not work after her attack. A subplot is that her father, who was married twice before her mother and had 5 children in those marriages, left his fortune to Bailey and her brother. So, they're being sued by their half-siblings for a piece of their father's estate. I's only after her attack that one of Bailey's half-sisters becomes her caregiver and confidant.Nothing is as it appears as Bailey seems to see her attacker in every man she comes in contact with. She becomes obsessed with a man whose apartment she can see directly across from hers. She spies on him with her binoculars and is sure that he was the one who raped her. She calls the cops every time she believes that each man definitely had something to do with her rape. Not only does she offend all the men she comes in contact with, but the cops are beginning to dismiss her accusations as she becomes even more unstable.Due to her extreme wealth, it was too easy for Bailey to cocoon herself after the rape. I kept wondering how this story would have played out if she was of moderate means and had to get up and get dressed and go to work each day. The outcome of the subplot was no surprise. I suspected it early on, and was actually disappointed when it turned out to be the case. I like to be surprised by the ending of a mystery. And, I was. Because the man who was the actual rapist is one you never see coming. Totally worth the read.
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Gaslight, Anyone? By BeatleBangs1964 Joy Fielding's books have always been a mixed bag for me. She has a talent for playing to the spectrum by writing truly heinous books like Whispers and Lies, which was singularly abominable as was Shadow Creek: A Novel; Lost (Fielding, Joy); Puppet and Missing Pieces to excellent books like Kiss Mommy Goodbye. Heartstopper: A Novel was really good. So were See Jane Run and Don't Cry Now.That having been said, this book was one that kept me reading. I actually liked Bailey who is an investigator with a bloodhound sniffer and good instincts. Her life takes a major downturn after she survives being raped, which is a singularly horrific and traumatic experience. I liked her niece Jade who is a sharp little French bulldog to her bloodhound. (French bulls are high spirited, smart and lovable.)Jade is really the only family Bailey has. Her brothers and sister Heath, Gene and Claire are alienated from her and upon their father's death the siblings are at loggerheads over the fact that only Bailey and Heath were the only ones who received an inheritance. Heath and Bailey had a good relationship and they were the ones who stood to gain regarding the inheritance. They have several half siblings who were excluded from the will and those excluded family members are hotly contesting this.Claire was a surprise. She rushes to Bailey's defense as does her daughter, Jade. Her siblings remain locked in combat and turn jaundiced suspicious eyes Bailey's way. Her siblings don't do a darn single thing for Bailey when she falls on hard times.After surviving rape, Bailey is determined to identify her attacker and rebuild her life. Her mental competence is called into question and she herself begins to doubt her own sanity. Bailey has among other issues to contend with the question of who among her immediate family members can she trust and are they what they seem to be. The family dynamics are interesting and I admit threw me off guard at least once.Finding out the identity of the rapist was a big surprise. It was like a rabbit had been pulled out of a literary hat with very unlikely and very surprising results. This is one of Joy Fielding's better books.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. She almost lost me, and then this happened... By Jeri Fielding almost lost me at the start of the book. The plot revolves around Bailey, who is gorgeous, lives in a luxury glass skyscraper in Miami, inherited a fortune from her father, and is currently having an affair with a married man. What's likeable about that picture? And speaking as a married woman, I'd rather have someone shoot me in the leg than wreck my marriage and have a divorce harm my children. So it was a struggle to like Bailey in the first chapter or so.But wait. Only a few pages away from that first chapter, Bailey is raped.. Bailey's a private investigator, and she was checking out the activities of a suspect,. Crouching in the bushes, she hides from view without knowing how vulnerable she is.. It's late, a dark night, and the neighborhood around her is quiet, empty of other people.The attack is sudden and brutal, the rape so savage it leaves her emotionally shattered. The police try to draw information out of her, but the rapist threw a pillowcase over her head, so Bailey can only recall a few, scant facts. A pair of Nike sneakers. The scent of spearmint mouthwash. A few words uttered against her ear.The aftermath leaves Bailey panicked. She refuses to leave her condo. She takes shower after shower, and can hardly sleep, and when she does, nightmares terrify her. When she finally manages to step outside her home, every male she meets sends a shiver up her spine. Could he be the one? When a neighbor stares at her at the condo gym, she begins to run faster and faster on the machine, panicking to the point she crashes off the machine.In such a fragile state, Bailey isn't able to make clear judgments about the people around her. And Bailey is fenced in by suspicious characters, perhaps all drawn more by her money than affection for her. She has a stepbrother who is suing her for having inherited the family money. But after hearing about the rape, suddenly, he shows up at her door, claiming to be worried about her. With him is Bailey's stepsister and her reckless teenage daughter, both of whom she had hardly seen before, but who are now solicitous.Then there is her slacker pot-fogged brother, who is best friends with a long ago boyfriend of Bailey's, a boyfriend who did something to her that no boyfriend should do. Could her brother care about her and yet still try to talk her into seeing her this man?Bailey, frightened and not knowing where to turn, stays in her condo. With not much else to do, she picks up binoculars and begins to watch her neighbors in the glass highrise nearby. One man in particular draws her attention.Fielding is a terrific writer, and she knows how to ratchet up the suspense. All the characters that surround Bailey are believable, but all could have reason to harm her. You'll find yourself turning the pages quickly. And expect some twists.
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