Book Stats
- Publication Date: 06/02/2026
- Format: eBook
- Chapters: 41 + 1 prologue and 1 epilogue
- Pages: 336
- Narrator POV: Alternating POVs between main characters
Book Rating
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Review
A wild, feminist new take on Hitchcock’s classic Psycho. I was immediately captivated when I saw the description, but I had absolutely no idea what I was in for. Every time I thought I knew what was happening, I was proven wrong in the most mind-bending ways.
Marion works for a Manhattan ad agency where she’s not being valued as she should be. Her sister, Lauren, is in an abusive marriage with seemingly no intent to escape. After one particularly bad incident with her husband, she stays with Marion but ultimately decides to return to her husband. After she leaves, Marion can’t seem to get in touch with her. Worrying for her sister’s safety, she takes a bus to find out what’s going on and hopefully bring her sister back to reality. When the bus breaks down in a town between Manhattan and Saratoga Springs, where her sister lives, Marion has no choice but to take a room at the Billings motel, the only one with a vacancy.
Norm seems like an odd but nice guy. Marion never sees it coming, and what happens next changes her entire life. Spoiler alert? Only if you haven’t seen the movie. As she’s showering off the hot, sticky summer heat, Norm comes at her with a knife. Unlike the movie, she fights back to save herself and her sister.
Everything that comes next is nothing you’ll expect. You’ll think you know what’s coming, what’s going to happen, but there’s no way. I don’t recall ever having picked up a Leah Rowan book before; in fact, I don’t even know if she’s written anything else. This one has me convinced she’s a genius. I can’t even begin to imagine the plot board it took to keep all these details straight!
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