The Watcher: A Novel of Crime

A "tautly plotted psychological thriller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Germany’s most successful female author.
Carla Roberts lives alone in the top of a high rise building, frightened by the sound of the lift stopping and opening on her floor, with nobody getting out. Days later, she’s found brutally murdered. Meanwhile Samson Segal, an unemployed thirty-something, has taken to spying on his neighbors, particularly beautiful and successful Gillian Ward. When Gillian’s daughter co…