Hitchcocks Rear Window meets Messuds The Woman Upstairs in this unnerving, superbly crafted novel which takes listeners deep into the mind of a serial stalker and, through him, the lives of his unsuspecting victims. Try it yourself. Go out, pick somebody and watch them. Take your phone and a notebook. Persist. What begins as a confluence of yours and another persons journeys, on the train maybe or leaving a cinema, gets into an entanglement. You follow, feeling that its not really following because youre going the same way, then when they at last reach their office you feel the clutch of a goodbye. Its normal. But how many times do you think the person being followed has been you?Read Me is a seductive, haunting novel that holds a sinister mirror up to the ways in which we observe, judge, and influence people. Benedictus prose commands and draws listeners into the dark, manipulative mind of a serial stalker as he targets women across London, escalating his efforts until he settles on Francesa bright young professional whose career is set to take offwhose life he proceeds to unravel from the inside, out.A chilling rumination on power, manipulation, complicity, and anonymity, Read Me exposes just how vulnerable we are to the whims of otherspeople we may not even know.