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We Are Watching

A Novel

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We Are Watching

By: Alison Gaylin
Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
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“Alison Gaylin proves once again that she is a master at mining the zeitgeist to create smart thrillers that are at once emotionally resonant and truly terrifying… utterly captivating.” Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Note

From USA Today bestselling and Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author Alison Gaylin comes a slick, riveting, and all-too-plausible tale of psychological suspense where a mother is desperate to protect her family as they become targets of a group of violent conspiracy theorists.

Sometimes the world is out to get you.

Meg Russo was behind the wheel when it happened. She and her husband Justin were driving their daughter Lily to Ithaca College, the family celebrating the eighteen-year-old music prodigy’s future. Then a car swerved up beside them, the young men inside it behaving bizarrely—and Meg lost control of her own vehicle. The family road trip turned into a tragedy. Justin didn’t survive the accident.

Four months later, Meg works to distract herself from her grief and guilt, reopening her small local bookstore. But soon after she returns to work, bizarre messages and visitors begin to arrive, with strangers threatening Meg and Lily in increasingly terrifying ways. They are obsessed with a young adult novel titled The Prophesy, which was published thirty years earlier. An online group of believers are convinced that it heralds the apocalypse, and social media posts link the book—and Meg’s reclusive musician father—to Satanism. These conspiracy theorists vow to seek revenge on The Prophesy’s author...Meg.

As the threats turn violent, Meg begins to suspect that Justin’s death may not have been an accident. To find answers and save her daughter, her father, and herself, Meg must get to the root of these dangerous lies—and find a way to face the believers head-on … before it’s too late.

©2023 Alison Gaylin (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
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Conspiracy theory on steroids

Given the state of affairs in 2025 USA, I thought I might enjoy this conspiracy theory book.

I was wrong.

WE ARE WATCHING isn’t a bad book. I just didn’t enjoy listening to the audiobook.

I grew up hearing all kinds of urban myths like secret messages of the Beatles’s songs were played backwards. Now, imagine if a few people took a crazy urban myth and elevated that to a full on conspiracy drawing in a book the songwriter’s teenage daughter wrote. Keep imagining this craziness goes on for thirty some years, growing in popularity and numbers of people who bought into the nonsense. You’d then have WE ARE WATCHING.

More outlandish than pizzagate, WE ARE WATCHING seemed too preposterous to be real. But then again, so did pizzagate.

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Amazing

Loved the twists in this story, performance was amazing as well. Such a great book to listen to!

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Unexpected twists

Awesome read! Fast paced and well-written. The narrator did a great job. Solid character development and plot.

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