How Can I Help You

How Can I Help YouBy: Laura Sims A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Publishers Weekly CrimeReads Book Riot A LibraryReads Pick The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession. No one knows Margos real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small town public library know only her middle aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect

By: Laura Sims     

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times Book Review • Publishers Weekly • CrimeReads • Book Riot

A LibraryReads Pick

The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession.

No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library know only her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges.

That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo’s subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a tragic incident in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo’s mysterious past, Patricia can’t resist digging deeper—even as her new fixation becomes all-consuming and sends both women hurtling toward disaster.

Chilling, incisive, and darkly humorous, How Can I Help You is a propulsive work of psychological suspense that asks how far we might go to justify our most monstrous desires.