David Bell is a USA Today bestselling, award-winning author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages. He's currently a professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he directs the MFA program.

STRONG, CONSISTENT SALES: There are 900k copies of David's Berkley novels in print, with very consistent salesBESTSELLER HISTORY: Somebody I Used to Know was on the USA Today bestseller list, and Cemetery Girl was on the Bookscan trade fiction bestseller list, Heartland Indie bestseller list, and Indie Bound and Publishers Weekly mass market listsSIMULTANEOUS TRADE PUBLICATION: Continuing our successful strategy for David's previous three novels, this is being published in hardcover and trade paperback simultaneouslyNEW BOOK CLUB SUPPORT: Book club rights were sold for David's previous book, The Request-his first book club deal in nearly 10 yearsLIBRARIANS LOVE DAVID: Layover and Somebody's Daughter were Library Reads picksHIGH-CONCEPT HOOK INFUSED WITH AUTHENTICITY: This is the first time David has had a college professor as the protagonist and set a book on a college campus; as a college professor, his experience gives authenticity to the campus politics and intrigueINTERNATIONAL SALES: David's novels have been published in numerous countries including England, Germany, France, Poland, and RussiaCOAST-TO-COAST RAVE REVIEWS AND BLURBS: From the Washington Post to the Houston Chronicle to the New York Times Book Review, David Bell is an acclaimed suspense writer; New York Times bestselling authors Riley Sager, Mary Kubica, Cristina Alger, Alafair Burke, Mark Greaney, Jeffery Deaver, and Lisa Unger are all fansWE OWN MORE BOOKS FROM THIS AUTHOR

A Most Anticipated Summer Read by SheReads * Motherly * Palm Beach Daily News * Frolic * Crime Reads and more!

"Fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz s The Plot may want to check this one out."--Publishers Weekly
 
"With hints of Patricia Highsmith s The Talented Mr. Ripley, this is a riveting thriller."--Palm Beach Daily News
 
"Grabs you by the throat and never lets go...with a twist you ll never see coming.  
--Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

"Sounds like Wonder Boys times Patricia Highsmith. Yes please!"--Crime Reads

When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request.   

After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman.    

There s just one problem: Connor didn t write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him.    

Connor s problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. Soon Connor discovers the crime is part of a disturbing scandal on campus and faces an impossible dilemma admit he didn t write the book and lose his job or keep up the lie and risk everything. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secrets buried in his student s manuscript.  

This is a suspenseful, provocative novel about the sexual harassment that still runs rampant in academia and the lengths those in power will go to cover it up.