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  • Published: 13 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241639870
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99

Nightwatching





This nightmare could happen to anyone.
But what if it happened to you?

There was someone in the house.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. Then she hears a noise - old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs...

In that split second, she has three choices.

Should she hide? Should she run? Or should she fight?

  • Published: 13 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241639870
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $34.99

Praise for Nightwatching

Fiercely feminist and viscerally terrifying

Kirkus Reviews

As grippingly suspenseful as the plot is, Sierra’s first outing boasts other strengths just as noteworthy, from its transportingly eerie setting to its indelible main character

Publisher's Weekly

Very few books are as sharp, clever and utterly terrifying as Nightwatching. Read at your own risk

CHRIS WHITAKER

Hold-your-breath suspense

Washington Post

Triumphs in a gripping and convincing finale

Daily Mail

One of the most terrifying - and brilliant - thrillers I have ever read

Guardian

I barely breathed while reading this incredibly tense, chilling thriller

Good Housekeeping

A chilling tale you may want to read during daylight hours

Woman and Home

Almost unbearably tense, suffused with fear without ever exploiting it

Sunday Times

Among the best debuts I’ve read in years

LA Times

An extraordinary book with a unique voice which caught me from the first line

JANE CORRY

I am trying to think of a book that has grabbed me by the throat more quickly’

LINWOOD BARCLAY

A masterclass in tension and terror, it’s also a creative, thoughtful portrait of maternal fear and love

ASHLEY AUDRAIN

Acutely frightening and beautifully written . . . I can't remember rooting for a character quite so hard

ABIGAIL DEAN

A scalpel-sharp thriller

NIKKI SMITH

Eerily atmospheric, pulse-pounding and unputdownable

SARAH PEKKANEN

I had no idea that a story could be both so beautifully written and so unbelievably terrifying

ALAFAIR BURKE

A terrifying descent into my deepest maternal fears . . . One of the most haunting, gripping novels I've read

KATIE GUTIERREZ

You’ll want to gulp it down in one sitting, if you’re not too scared to turn the page! Everyone should read this book!

LAUREN NORTH

So tense, so thought-provoking. I felt my heart rate rising as I read it . . . The definition of can’t-put-down’

ARAMINTA HALL

Tremendous, terrifying

Heat

Nightwatching is acutely frightening and beautifully written, as tender as it is terrifying. I can't remember rooting for a character quite so hard

Abigail Dean

Absolutely, breathtakingly superb . . . delivers the highest possible grip factor from first word to last, and a more satisfying resolution than I dared to hope for

Sophie Hannah

One of the most haunting, gripping novels I've read in a long time

Katie Gutierrez
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