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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spinetingling novel of lies loss and buried desirethe mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night

When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing her children fear the worst Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre and devastating Once she merely destroyed the hydrangeas in front of her Vermont home More terrifying was the night her older daughter Lianna pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River bridge The morning of Annalees disappearance a search party combs the nearby woods Annalees husband Warren flies home from a business trip Lianna is questioned by a young hazeleyed detective And her little sister Paige takes to swimming the Gale to look for clues When the police discover a small swatch of fabric a nightshirt ripped and hanging from a tree branch it seems certain Annalee is dead but Gavin Rikert the hazeleyed detective continues to call continues to stop by the Ahlbergs Victorian home As Lianna peels back the layers of mystery surrounding Annalees disappearance she finds herself drawn to Gavin but she must ask herself Why does the detective know so much about her mother Why did Annalee leave her bed only when her father was away And if she really died while sleepwalking where was the body
Conjuring the strange and mysterious world of parasomnia a place somewhere between dreaming and wakefulness The Sleepwalker is a masterful novel from one of our most treasured storytellers