Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Someone's watching you. You don't know who. But he knows you...
Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters - promising to bring their lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself.

He delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to leave them utterly helpless, alone and in terror. Except they're not all as helpless as he thinks...

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405920636 (July, 2018), 359 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
Someone's watching you. You don't know who. But he knows you...
Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them.

He sends them terrifying letters - promising to bring their lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself.

He delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to leave them utterly helpless, alone and in terror. Except they're not all as helpless as he thinks...

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141034140 (July, 2008), 359 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
In her most nerve-shattering novel ever, Nicci French takes you into the lives of three women who have one thing in common -- a sadist who wants to get beneath their skin and know them intimately.

They are three very different women: Zoe, the pretty blond schoolteacher; Jenny, the former hand model turned model mother and wife; and Nadia, the free spirit who entertains at children's parties. But when they are targeted by a sexual predator, they become sisters closer than kin. Suddenly they share the same dread when they approach their doorsteps, fall victim to the same rising panic as darkness falls. For someone is watching them, learning them better than they know them-selves. And when the gruesome threats begin to escalate, each woman faces a horrifying truth: No one is coming to the res-cue, not even the police. Stalked by an unknown killer, each can count only on herself, and do whatever it takes to survive.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446609781 (June, 2001), 448 p., $7.99.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives -- the clothes they wear, their little habits, how they act when they think they're alone -- and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end.

But not before he has enjoyed himself. Invisible and apparently unstoppable. he delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to destroy their lives and their faith in those closest to them, to leave them utterly helpless, alone in their terror and confusion. But they're not all as helpless as he thinks...

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Penguin, ISBN: 0140281061 (March, 2001), 370 p., £5.99.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
Zoe is a young schoolteacher, newly arrived in the big city. Jennifer is the mother of three boys, prosperous, respectable, unhappy. Nadia is a children's-party entertainer just out of a bad relationship, wondering what to do with her life. Three women with nothing in common except the man who wants to kill them. More than that, he wants to see them suffer, to enjoy his power over the women and their police guards. In a series of notes he announces his plans to his terrified victims.

What can they do in the face of a man who wants nothing from them except their lives? This is a story of our worst fear, the fear that in the end we are on our own, that nobody can protect us. It explores the extremities of terror and desire, of betrayal and trust, the urge to kill and the desperate instinct to survive. It is about the powerlessness of a victim, and finding the strength to fight back.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718144503 (June, 2000), 359 p., £9.99.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
The Washington Post called her last book, Killing Me Softly, "undeniably fascinating." People praised its "peak psychological suspense." Now internationally acclaimed author Nicci French proves herself the equal of top thriller writers on either side of the Atlantic with a chilling tale of three women linked by a sociopath who wants to know them intimately, and to love them... to death.

Beneath the Skin
They are three very different women: Zoe, the pretty blond schoolteacher... Jenny, the former hand model turned model mother and wife...and Nadia, the irresponsible free spirit who entertains at children's parties. They live in different parts of London, grapple with different problems, harbor different dreams. But when they are targeted by a sadistic killer, they become sisters beneath the skin.

Suddenly they all share the same dread when they approach their doorsteps, fall victim to the same rising panic as darkness falls. For someone is sending them threatening letters, macabre notes that let each one know she is being watched, studied...

Their pursuer is clever and coldly calculating, a sexual predator who takes pleasure in each woman's pain, feeds on each one's fears, and glories when their lives are turned upside down.

At first the police -- and even the women -- refuse to take the threats seriously. But eventually Zoe, Jenny, and Nadia each come to the horrifying realization that there will be no white knight riding to the rescue. Each is on her own, as someone exposes each one's secrets, relationships strain and shatter, and each woman finds herself scrutinized by the police as they search for a suspect who could be anyone: a neighbor, a lover, a co-worker, even an absolute stranger.

In Killing Me Softly author Nicci French showed us how one person's passion for another could lead to fearsome consequences. In Beneath The Skin, a story even more terrifying, she once more explores the dark landscape of obsession.

Nicci French: Beneath the Skin. Warner Books / Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892967269 (May, 2000), 378 p., $24.95.