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How Can I Help You
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How Can I Help You Hardcover - 2023

by Laura Sims

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. First Edition/ Stated Second Printing. Brand new copy. Signed by author on Title Page.
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  • Title How Can I Help You
  • Author Laura Sims
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Date July 2023
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 46862
  • ISBN 9780593543702 / 059354370X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.89 x 1.04 in (21.62 x 14.96 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Librarians, Novels
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023018916
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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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.

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  • Booklist, 06/01/2023, Page 38
  • BookPage, 08/01/2023, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2023, Page 72
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 02/01/2023, Page 5
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/08/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 07/21/2023, Page 0

About the author

Laura Sims is the author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and CrimeReads Best Book of the Year, and a LibraryReads Top Ten Books of July. Sims's first novel, LOOKER, was included on "Best Books" lists in Vogue, People Magazine, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, and more, and is now in development for television by eOne and Emily Mortimer's King Bee Productions. An award-winning poet, Sims has published four poetry collections; her essays and poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, Lit Hub, and Electric Lit. She and her family live in New Jersey, where she works part-time as a reference librarian and hosts the library's lecture series.

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