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Newspaper columnist Daniel Caruso has a wife he loves deeply, a daughter who means everything to him, and an obsessive secret life that threatens it all. At a conference in Seattle, he meets Stephen Hart, a handsome firefighter, and the two spend a passionate night together. Awakening alone and deeply conflicted the next morning, Daniel resigns himself once again to the hollow, tainted pleasures of his dual existence. His encounter with Hart, though, is far more than a one-night stand: it marks the beginning of a terrifying, noirish descent.On the journey home to Providence, R.I., Daniel receives a bizarre and frightening sign that someone knows the most intimate details of his life. Then, after he reunites with his family, another message makes it chillingly clear that Stephen Hart has been murdered. The killer, taunting Daniel through macabre communications, paints a brutally accurate portrait of Daniel's sexual obsessions, leaving no doubt that he is watching Daniel's every move - and those of his family. As Daniel desperately tries to shield his wife and daughter from the truth, he succumbs to the killer's diabolical manipulations and is dragged deeper into a netherworld of bathhouses and S/M clubs in a nerve-shattering thriller driven by the devastating price of secrecy.Nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, Gary Zebrun's debut novel returns to print, accompanied by an introduction by Scott Hightower.""This astonishing first novel combines excellent prose, dialogue, and character, drawing with throat-gripping suspense that invites comparison with Hitchcock, Woolrich and Charlotte Armstrong."" - Ellery Queen Magazine ""Cool as witch hazel, frightening as a fresh body part ... guaranteed to give you sleepless nights ... If you've ever wondered what goes on inside those big old clapboard houses in Providence, Rhode Island, this beautifully crafted novel will give you the horrifying scoop."" - Edmund White ""In this first novel, Gary Zebrun introduces himself as a major fiction writing talent ... Someone You Know is not only a compelling mystery, but an emotionally charged and acutely observed psychological portrait of a lost and secretive man forced by a widening circle of murders to confront who he is."" - Ron Hansen ""Gary Zebrun's Someone You Know is a harrowing and at times heartbreaking account of one good man's futile hope that he can contain the increasingly dangerous mess his closeted life has created for him ... This is a hugely impressive debut, filled with tenderness, wisdom, and clarity of insight."" - Jim Shepard

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Gary Zebrun lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His first novel, Someone You Know, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. About his second novel, Only The Lonely, Kirkus wrote, ""[It] captivates through the complexity and vulnerability of its characters and the excellence of its prose, polished to a luminous transparency."" He is a graduate of the Brown Graduate Writing Program and the recipient of Yaddo, MacDowell, and Breadloaf fellowships and taught creative writing at the University of Michigan. He has published poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose in the New York Times, the New Republic, Iowa Review, American Scholar, Sewanee Review, The Believer, The Common, and elsewhere. His manuscript of poetry has been a finalist twice for the Walt Whitman Poetry Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. His most recent novel, Hart Island, was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction and Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Joseph Hansen Award in Crime Writing. Scott Hightower is the author of five books of poetry in the U.S. and two bi-lingual collections published by Devenir, Madrid. His newest, Imperative to Spare, is from Rebel Satori, New Orleans. His third book Part of the Bargain won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. Hightower's translations from the Spanish have garnered him a Barnstone Translation Prize. He has lived in Austin, sojourned in India, Italy, and Spain, and now lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

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