An Anonymous Girl: A Novel

Greer Hendricks · Sarah Pekkanen

Jan 2019 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about!

People Magazine's Book of the Week • Bookish's "Must-Read Books of Winter" • PopSugar's "Best Books of Winter" • Cosmopolitan's "2019 Books to Bring to Your Book Club" • Bookbub's "Biggest Books of Winter" • Refinery 29's "Best Books of January 2019" • Crime Reads' "January's Best Psychological Thrillers" • InStyle's "7 Books That You Should Resolve to Read This January" • HelloGiggles' "The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2019" • USA Today's "5 New Books Not to Miss" • Marie Claire's "The Best Women’s Fiction of 2019 (So Far)" • Hypable's "Winter Releases You Can’t Afford to Miss"

"Hendricks and Pekkanen are at the top of their game...You won't see the final twist coming." —People Magazine

“Beware strange psychologists...the authors know exactly how to play on their characters’ love of danger to bring them to the brink of disaster - and dare them to jump off.” —New York Times Book Review

"Slickly twisty [with] gasp-worthy final twists...major league suspense." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"For those who relished the creepy stalking in Hendricks and Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us, this unnerving tale will have them rethinking what secrets are safe to share and if moral and ethics really matter when protecting the ones you love." —Library Journal (starred review)

"Masterfully escalates the suspense." —Booklist (starred review)

Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields’s experiments blurs.

Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking... and what she’s hiding.

Jessica’s behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated.

Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.

From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl will keep you riveted through the last shocking twist.

Ratings and reviews

At least once in every chapter I would be thrown out of the story by bad writing, preposterous development, or a little of both. I finished this for a book club, but had I not been compelled, I would have dropped this book after chapter 4. Unless you are really into books about fidelity (a husband's fidelity) I doubt this book will come off as enjoyable.

I really wanted to like this book and was excited for the opportunity to read it thru Netgalley. Unfortunately about halfway thru I found myself wishing it were over. The story was good and had plenty of twist but there was so much unneeded fluff that the intrigue or suspense factor died. Yes this author has a great mind for twisted plots and no you won't see it happening. I read The Wife Between Us and it was wonderful and this one can be as well with less fluff well that is my humble opinion and that wont stop me from continuing to follow this pair. This book may not be a favorite but it still was quite enjoyable.

I rlly liked this one! However, I did only listen to it on Audible (the best audiobook app ever imho). I kinda think I love it all-the-more bc of that. Anywho, I think that the book was so good! Plot twists and a semi-relatable character and light mystery with a little death? It's a little sad to say, but I love those things in books! Def a promising read.

About the author

GREER HENDRICKS spent two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Allure, and Publishers Weekly.

SARAH PEKKANEN is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of eight previous novels. A former investigative journalist and feature writer, her work has been published in The Washington Post, USA Today, and many others.

Together, they have written the New York Times bestselling novels The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl.