THE EDEN TEST

★ Washington Post Best Thrillers of 2023: “Fans of Laura Dave (The Last Thing He Told Me) will enjoy this… engrossing drama.”

★ Publishers Weekly Best Thrillers of 2023: “Gripping, unpredictable, and packed with Gone Girl–level twists.”

★ CrimeReads Best Crime Novels of 2023: “A high-water mark in the modern psychological thriller… ratchets up to something almost unbearably tense and yet also, counterintuitively, an absolute joy to read.”

★ The Globe and Mail 100 Best Books 2023: “A taut domestic suspense thriller.”

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “A lustrous domestic suspense novel… deliciously entertaining — but its portrait of a marriage in trouble is nuanced and serious, hopeful and melancholy.”

★ “Outstanding… [a] masterfully manipulative chiller just waiting for its close-up. Sternbergh has outdone himself.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

★ “A wry, sly chiller… the crafty storyline hooks you from the start. All you need to do is hang on for a wild ride.” — KIRKUS REVIEWS

★ A “brilliantly paced thriller… riveting suspense in the classic Hitchcockian style.” — BOOKLIST

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Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed.

Daisy and Craig’s marriage is in serious trouble. That’s why Daisy has signed up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start. Yet even as she’s struggling to salvage her marriage, it seems Craig has plans to leave her for another woman.

In fact, his bags are already packed―long before he arrives to meet Daisy in this remote cabin in the woods of upstate New York. But what Craig doesn’t know is that Daisy, a slyly talented actress, has secrets of her own.

Not to mention the Eden Test itself, which poses a searing new question to the couple every day, each more explosive than the last. Their marriage was never perfect, but now the lies and revelations are piling up, as the week becomes much more than they bargained for… How far are they willing to go?

"A galloping and exhilarating thriller." ―Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

“Twisty, timely, and darkly comic. I loved it.” – Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Lady in the Lake

“An utterly gripping thriller.” – Rumaan Alam, author of the National Book Award-nominated Leave the World Behind

“Addictive, fleet, and thrillingly (and pointedly) of our moment.” — Megan Abbott, New York Times-bestselling author of The Turnout

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MORE PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF ADAM STERNBERGH

THE BLINDS

“Adam Sternbergh is a genre-bender of the highest caliber. Part thriller, part Western, part pulpy whodunit, The Blinds is a propulsive and meaningful meditation on redemption and loss. It’s witty, electrifying, vivid, and thoroughly original.” — DENNIS LEHANE

"Sternbergh’s characters are intriguing, his plot is suspenseful and his outlook is endearingly dark. . . . Read it and weep. Or laugh. Or both. Sternbergh is an original, grandly irreverent writer." —WASHINGTON POST

"A tense, broiling, 21st-century Western with a crafty premise... Every time the reader thinks this story’s turning right, it takes a hard left. But it never wanders in circles, and it does move like a championship stock car toward a climax that, however shattering, implies there’s more to come.” — KIRKUS REVIEWS (★STARRED REVIEW)

SHOVEL READY

“Awesome.” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Bogart-cool. . . . Razor-sharp. . . . Death-metal brutal and darkly hilarious.” — ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“The best kind of hard boiled noir.” — GQ

NEAR ENEMY

"Popular fiction that engages one's heart, mind and adrenaline" — BOOKLIST (starred review)

"Bleak, black, bloody great!" (★ ★ ★ ★) — SUNDAY SPORT UK