[tps_title]12. Dream Girl by Laura Lippman[/tps_title]
How can a woman who never existed come back to haunt you? Gerry Anderson has been having trouble sleeping. He’s unwell – bed-bound – and has only his night nurse and his personal assistant for company. But what’s really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the ‘real’ Aubrey. But that can’t be. Aubrey’s just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived? ‘As if one of Philip Roth’s complicated men stumbled into a razor-sharp Stephen King plot .
