The Stalker

A nail-bitingly tense thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder until the final shocking twist

Kate Rhodes

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781398529311
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

‘Chillingly compelling and expertly assembled. An immersive piece of thriller writing of the sort late-night-reading binges are made of’ B. P. WALTER 

‘Dark, intense, and expertly crafted. Kate Rhodes delivers exactly what I look for in a gripping thriller’ RACHEL ABBOTT 

She thinks she understand stalkers. Until she becomes a target . . . 

Elly is an expert in stalking – an academic at Cambridge University and a popular media pundit. She knows the subject intimately: what motivates a stalker, how they behave, how to rehabilitate them.

But now it’s personal. Someone is following her, making silent phone calls and sending her ominous notes. The message is always the same – me or you.

Elly can’t trust anyone – not her family, her friends or her colleagues. She knows that her stalker must be someone close to her. And when they suddenly turn violent, she realizes she’s running out of time to find out who it is.

Because it looks like only one of them will survive.

A terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, told from the perspective of the stalker and the stalked – a roller-coaster ride with an ending you won’t see coming. 

‘Terrifying and tense, as unpredictable as it is compelling' LESLEY KARA

‘A classy, edge-of-the-seat thriller which will keep you guessing throughout!’ B.A. PARIS

‘Pacy, tense and unsettling . . . Kate keeps you guessing until the end, then hits you with a chapter that will stay with you long after you close the book’ MARI HANNAH

‘Stylish and atmospheric, with a final page that is sure to chill your bones. Loved it’ CAZ FREAR
 
'The tension never lets up. Just when you think you’ve unravelled the mystery, Rhodes masterfully delivers a twist that leaves you breathless’ JO JAKEMAN 

'A bloody good read. Tense and intense' KATE EVANS 

‘Pacy and chilling. I binged it’ EMMA BAMFORD 

‘Kate Rhodes always delivers an entertaining read but this standalone novel really packs a punch’ RUSS THOMAS 
 
‘Gripping . . . I just couldn't put this down’ SIMON McCLEAVE  

'A creepy slow-burn of a thriller – one that will have you looking over your own shoulder as you read late into the night’ SARAH PEKKANEN 

‘Superb plotting. The very best in psychological crime writing’ JANE ISAAC

'Tense and terrifying - no one is above suspicion in this masterpiece of literary manipulation' ANNE COATES

‘Deliciously addictive’ ISABEL ASHDOWN 

‘Irresistible’ CRIME TIME 

‘Terrifying’ CRIME MONTHLY

'Tense and properly chilling' SUN ON SUNDAY, FABULOUS MAGAZINE 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Chapter 37
• Chapter 38
• Chapter 39
• Chapter 40
• Chapter 41
• Chapter 42
• Chapter 43
• Chapter 44
• Chapter 45
• Chapter 46
• Chapter 47
• Chapter 48
• Chapter 49
• Chapter 50
• Chapter 51
• Chapter 52
• Chapter 53
• Chapter 54
• Chapter 55
• Chapter 56
• Chapter 57
• Chapter 58
• Chapter 59
• Chapter 60
• Chapter 61
• Chapter 62
• Chapter 63
• Chapter 64
• Chapter 65
• Chapter 66
• Chapter 67
• Chapter 68
• Chapter 69
• Chapter 70
• Chapter 71
• Chapter 72
• Chapter 73
• Author’s Note
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright