Dream Girl: A Novel

"Laura Lippman’s latest standalone thriller, Dream Girl, deftly draws on #MeToo themes and owes a lot to Stephen King’s 1987 horror classic, Misery. Here’s the premise: Shortly after a famous novelist named Gerry Anderson moves into a duplex penthouse in Baltimore, he tumbles down his “floating staircase” and is rendered immobile, totally dependent on a night nurse and young assistant for care and company. That’s when the threatening phone calls begin. Cranky, funny, brilliant and unscrupulous, Gerry is a marvelous creation – a literary lion in winter who may belatedly pay a high price for the crimes of his youth."