YOU is a thriller that's been compared to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. It is written in the second person; the titular "you" is Guinevere Beck, the object of narrator Joe Goldberg's obsession. Joe is an independent bookstore owner in New York who spots Guinevere (who...
2017 Audie Awards
Hidden Bodies was selected as a finalist for a 2017 Audie Award, in the Thriller/Suspense category.
EW Review: Hidden Bodies
In the sequel Hidden Bodies, Kepnes, a former EW writer, trades in the second-person narration for more conventional first-person approach. We’re still floating along in Joe’s pitch-black stream of consciousness, but we’re no longer the object of his...
The Author Stalker Interview
After months of hearing readers gush about Caroline Kepnes’s debut novel You, I gave in, got a copy…and gobbled it up in two too-short days. Will you believe me when I say this is a fun book about stalking? It’s a thriller for the literary crowd; the stalker, Joe,...
Interview: On Suffering, Categories as Comfort, and the Dissonance Between the Said and the Unsaid
I don’t set out to make a THRILLER or a ROMANCE. I want to create something I love as much as people love Brad Pitt. And Joe’s relationships are the driving force. The only rule is that I have to believe in it. If I read it over and don’t feel like I’m in him then I’m...
Hidden Bodies Review by The Guardian
Goldberg was last seen in Kepnes’s original and excellent debut, You, in which he fell for a customer, leaving a clutch of bodies along the way as he relentlessly stalked her into going out with him. Hidden Bodies opens with Joe having seemingly put the past, and his...
HIDDEN BODIES is coming out in February and damn, it’s so good
Often times books and films have sequels that never seem to live up to the original. When I first read the thriller “YOU”, by Caroline Kepnes I could not imagine that anything could be better. It hit all the notes and buttons of being the kind of book that would...
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