Women can tell when a guy knows too much and I wanted to come in cool. That lilt in your voice got under my skin and I wanted to google you, but I didn’t. You called me three days ago to confirm my new job at the Bainbridge Public Library. I think you’re the one I spoke to on the phone, the librarian with a voice so soft that I went out and bought myself a cashmere sweater. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kay will do the right thing and make room for him. True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Over time, they'll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town. by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. He gets a job at the local library – he does know a thing or two about books – and that's where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe. Now, he's saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cosy island in the Pacific Northwest. Joe Goldberg is done with cities, done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. And he's going to start a family – even if it kills him. The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes's hit YOU series, now a blockbuster Netflix show.

How else can Joe Goldberg - stalker, creep, multiple-murderer, blamer of everyone else but himself, a “long overdue book, the one you never thought was coming” - be such an entertaining narrator? Even Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s famously amoral character (a clear inspiration for Kepnes), could be enjoyed at a third-person remove, unlike the in-your-face immediacy of Joe’s blinkered perspective.

‘Caroline Kepnes must be some kind of storytelling sorcerer. Joe’s back, and this time it’s definitely real love' CATHERINE STEADMAN

Internet creeping at its most darkly humorous. It’s completely addictive, razor-sharp writing from Kepnes. 'Another dark, thrilling, and blackly hilarious adventure from everyone's favourite murderer' CLAIRE MCGOWAN 'Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny' PAULA HAWKINS

An utterly unique character and an utterly unique writer, in a marriage made somewhere between heaven and hell’ RICHARD OSMAN 'Caroline Kepnes writes with such malevolent energy, such dark grace and such ink-black humour. ‘Crazy, sexy, cool: Caroline Kepnes gets better – and Joe Goldberg gets worse – with every book’ ERIN KELLY 'The latest in the thriller series behind Netflix stalker blockbuster You' GUARDIAN

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