The New York Times bestselling writer of VIRTUALLY NO TIME for Goodbye returns using a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn using the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds that there is no rational explanation.

College teacher Paul Davis is a normal guy with a standard life. Until, traveling along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer losing a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s ‘regular’ existence in regards to a Sound Downstairs: A Novel is turned ugly. After nearly dropping his own existence for the reason that encounter, he finds himself fighting PTSD, melancholy, and severe complications at work. His wife, Charlotte, eager to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter-complete with ink ribbons and weighty around keys-to encourage him to get started on that book he’s always intended to write.

Nevertheless, the typewriter itself is usually a problem. Paul swears it’s possessed and types by itself during the night. But just Paul can listen to the noise via downstairs; Charlotte doesn’t hear something. And she concerns he’s going off the rails.

Paul believes the typewriter is somehow connected to the murderer he discovered nearly this past year. The killer acquired produced his victims type apologies to him before finishing their lives. Has another ill twist of fate entwined his life using the killer-could this become the same machine? Significantly tormented but determined to discover the truth and confront his nightmare, Paul begins investigating the deaths himself.

But that may not be a very important thing to do. Maybe Paul should just take the typewriter back to where his wife discovered it. Maybe he should end asking questions and simply walk away while he can . .