The Silence in Her Eyes -- Armando Lucas Correa - Hardcover

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered.

Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice.

She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can't help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband.

Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity.

Author: Armando Lucas Correa
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.38w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781982197506

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2023 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 11/06/2023
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 32
Library Journal 12/01/2023 pg. 74
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2024