First published 2012
Thomas Kilbride has not left his bedroom in years. He has schizophrenia, and the outside world is too much. But through Whirl360.com, a street-view mapping program, he navigates every city on earth, memorizing intersections and storefronts with obsessive precision. One day, scanning a block in downtown New York City, he freezes on a window. Inside it, something looks wrong. A woman. A figure behind her. It looks like a murder caught in a single frame of digital time. Thomas tells his brother Ray, who moved back home to care for him after their father died. Ray cooks his meals, manages his appointments, and usually treats Thomas's theories with patient skepticism. This time Ray decides to look into it anyway. What starts as a reluctant favor turns into something much worse. The image is real. The people behind it are dangerous. And Ray and Thomas are no longer just observers looking at a screen. Someone is now looking back at them.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, adult-fiction, thriller, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, intense, paranoid, suspenseful
Tropes: brother-bond, found-family, unreliable-narrator, wrong-place-wrong-time
Setting: New York City
Period: 21st-century
498 pages · Paperback · Doubleday Canada
Content warnings: mental-illness, murder, violence