• Nightwatching

  • A Novel
  • By: Tracy Sierra
  • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
  • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (288 ratings)

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Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra
Narrated by: Emily Ellet
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Publisher's summary

Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping

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“Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.”—Elle

Nightwatching is like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it's amazing.”—Lisa Jewell

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.

She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.

In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is—and what he wants.

©2024 Tracy Sierra (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“How many of us have had the experience of hearing an old house creak in the night and wondering if it was something more? That uneasiness becomes terror in Sierra’s riveting debut. . . . What happens next falls between horror and suspense, landing with almost unbearable intensity. . . Nightwatching [is] among the best debuts I’ve read in years.” —LA Times

Nightwatching grows in stature and becomes not just a nerve-shredding page-turner but also an ingenious guessing game and an absorbing account of a woman's struggle to make her voice heard.” Minneapolis StarTribune

“So terrifying that it can easily be considered horror-adjacent. . . The intense plunge into the main character’s traumatic experience feels incredibly real and immediate, and the suspense doesn’t let up until the last moments of the novel.” BookPage

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Great book

Unbelievable twists and turns. Lots of "I know, oops I don't know"! Couldn't wait to finish so I could find out the ending.

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loved it!

one of the best I've listened to since starting audio books about a year ago

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Scary!

This was so well written and narrated-goosebump-inducing! Great ending! I look forward to the author’s next book.

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Narrator was fantastic

It was good, slow in parts, but definitely worth a listen. The Narrator was absolutely amazing. I listen to a lot of books, and just wow.

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Good

Too drawn out. It really needed something more, but I still listened to the end.

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It was okay

I had hoped for a better story .It was just okay .The ending was so weird .It was like a cheesy 80’s movie starring David Arquette as the town cop without all the masked slashing .Awkward ending,complete but just weird

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Scary good!

I loved it! Edge of your seat, kept me thinking about it long after it ended. Very creepy! A true thriller!

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Wow! Jimmy Fallon Recommended

Edge of your seat thriller. Fresh, exciting, great ride. Tracy, I don’t think you can scratch your retina but I think you can scratch your cornea.

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A creepy story

Night watching is a creepy story but listening to the audiobook makes it even more frightening. Five stars

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Hold on to your seat…

Terrifying though this is, there is an intelligence and sensitivity in the writing that made me trust that the roller coaster would come to a stop in a satisfying way. I was not disappointed.

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