Book jacket image for Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

Pamela Dorman

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STARRED REVIEW

Nightwatching

Nightwatching is best suited for the thriller reader with nerves of steel—while rarely violent, it is a truly scary book.

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Review of ‘Nightwatching’

Tracy Sierra’s debut novel is so terrifying that it can easily be considered horror-adjacent. A claustrophobic examination of the “freeze” response to trauma (as opposed to “fight” or “flight”), Nightwatching follows a mother desperate to protect her two young children amid unthinkable circumstances.

We open with an unnamed single mother half-asleep during a blizzard, listening…

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