num_pages: 160
description: Combining the dark twists of The Silent Patient with the unsettling beauty of The Vegetarian a tense gripping and wholly original psychological tale of a woman with a secret admirerwho is hiding secrets of her own.Beautiful diligent and passive Hongmei is the perfect wife to Glen an intelligent and caring college professor. But her quiet life in Northern California fractures when a mysterious person begins e-mailing her pulling her into an enthralling and frightening game of cat-and-mouse. Who is stalking her? And how does this mysterious stranger know her deepest darkest secrets?As Hongmei is forced to confront her own dark past in China the faade of her idyllic life is laid bare. Increasingly desperate and self-destructive her one hope is to turn the tables on her tormentor. Investigating the stalkers own secret history may irrevocably tear her marriage and her world aparta risk she must take to regain control of her life. 
language: English
title: The Secret Talker
publisher: HarperVia