Looker

Unsettling and compelling

A simmering sense of dread dominates this brilliant Brooklyn-set debut . . . dazzlingly creepy storytelling, reminiscent of NOTES ON A SCANDAL. Will leave you checking your curtains at night, but this is an utterly absorbing read - Grazia online

Sims creates a compelling narrator, who is both sympathetic and disturbing - Bookseller, Editor's Choice for July

Laura Sims has pulled off the high-wire act of making bitterness delicious - Vogue

Ephemeral fiction with a hard landing - like a window, seen in passing, that glows and goes dark - New Yorker

A sugarcoated poison pill of psychological terror - Wall Street Journal

Looker is a powerful sylph of a book about creation and destruction and the permeable boundary between them - LitHub

Jealousy rears its ugly head in Sims's chilling and riveting debut. In this tightly plotted novel, Sims takes the reader fully into the mind of a woman becoming increasingly unhinged, and turns her emotionally fraught journey into a provocative tale about the dangers of coveting what belongs to another - Publishers Weekly, starred review