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The Cul-de-Sac: A Psychological Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Christopher Smith
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
THE AUTHOR WITH MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE!
Sometimes I think this place is nothing more than a terrible illusion...
Alex West thinks he's found paradise when he and his wife, Jennifer, purchase The Glass House in the exclusive community of Winter Cove Estates. Years of writing #1 bestselling psychological thrillers have left Alex with zero privacy, so they leave Manhattan for the privacy Maine allegedly offers.
But Jennifer isn't so sure about the move.
She grew up in Maine, and returning means confronting violent memories she's spent years trying to forget. Still, she loves Alex enough to face her past for his future.
From the moment they arrive, nothing feels quite right.
Their new neighbor, HOA president Raven Hale, greets Jennifer with disturbing warnings and cryptic hints about the previous owner's death. Strange phone calls start coming from someone who shouldn't be able to call anyone at all because they're dead. And in a basement they never knew existed, they discover things that were left behind for a killer reason.
As the perfect facade of Winter Cove Estates begins to crack, Jennifer finds herself questioning not just her neighbors' motives, but her own memories. The line between what's real and what's constructed becomes dangerously thin, and Jennifer must navigate an increasingly unstable world where nothing-and no one-can be trusted.
In Winter Cove Estates, buried secrets refuse to stay dead. And when reality itself becomes the enemy, the question isn't who you can trust.
It's whether you can trust yourself.
A masterfully twisted exploration of trauma, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive, The Cul-de-Sac will leave you questioning everything you think you know about reality itself.
Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Gillian Flynn, Ruth Ware, and Riley Sager who crave psychological thrillers that blur the boundaries between truth and delusion.
About the Author
Christopher Smith is the author of the #1 international bestselling The Fifth Avenue Series, The Bullied Series, and You Only Die Twice. He has sold over 3.5 million books worldwide in eighteen different languages. He lives on the coast of Maine.
WHAT EARLY ARC READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE CUL-DE-SAC: I've read over 300 psychological thrillers, and this one stands alone. Smith doesn't just break the fourth wall-he incinerates it. The way he handles unreliable narration is absolutely masterful. This will be on every 'Best of' list this year.- BookCritic_Anonymous, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book destroyed me in the most beautiful way possible. I sobbed at the ending-not because it was sad, but because it was so perfectly, devastatingly true. Smith has created something extraordinary here. This is literature disguised as an unforgettable, terrifying thriller. - EmotionalReaderAlways, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I thought I understood psychological thrillers until I read this. THE CUL-DE-SAC isn't just unreliable narration-it's unreliable reality. I've never read anything that messed with my head this effectively. Absolutely brilliant. - PsychThrillerObsessed, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Warning: This book will ruin other thrillers for you. Nothing else will compare. The Glass House setting is pure genius-you feel exposed and trapped at the same time. - BookHoarder_Extreme, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Christopher Smith just wrote the thriller of the year.- ARC_Reader_Professional, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐1 different editions
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