Looker by Laura Sims

 A young woman living in the city becomes fixated on the famous actress in her neighborhood to the point of obsession.  As her own marriage is unraveling, the woman imagines the perfect life of the actress as compared to her own which is falling apart. Her job as a college writing professor is in danger and she ignores the messages of her soon to be ex-husband to return his cat although she never liked him in the first place.  With rising horror, we watch as she disintegrates into stalking the famous woman and dreaming she will become friends with her at the upcoming block party knowing at the same time she will commit some unforgiving act to humiliate herself.  At just under 200 pages, Looker is a thriller, character-driven suspense novel you can’t turn away from.