The Closer I Get

  • David H Headley

  • Psychological Thriller

  • May 2019

    • World English Language: Orenda Books

Tom is a successful author, but he’s struggling to finish his novel. His main distraction is an online admirer, Evie, who simply won’t leave him alone. Evie is smart, well read and unstable; she lives with her father and her social-media friendships are not only her escape, but everything she has.

When she’s hit with a restraining order, her world is turned upside down, and Tom is free to live his life again, to concentrate on writing. But things aren’t really adding up. For Tom is distracted but also addicted to his online relationships, and when they take a darker, more menacing turn, he feels powerless to change things. Because maybe he needs Evie more than he’s letting on.

​A compulsive, disturbingly relevant, twisty and powerful psychological thriller, The Closer I Get is also a searing commentary on the fragility and insincerity of online relationships, and the danger that can lurk just one ‘like’ away…

Selected Praise

“Thrilling, twisty, creepy... Makes you think about putting anything online ever again.”
— Araminta Hall, author of Everything & Nothing
“The Closer I Get is a dark, twisting tale that shines a light on the murkier side of human nature, social media and fame. Kept me hooked to the very last page.”
— Adam Hamdy, author of Pendulum
“Properly dark and human and twisty. I loved it!”
— Lisa Jewell, author of None Of This Is True

Other books by Paul Burston

Other Books by Paul Burston

Fiction

  • The Black Path (Accent Press)

  • Men & Women (Limehouse Books) ed.

  • Boys & Girls (Limehouse Books) ​ed.

  • The Gay Divorcee (Sphere)

  • Lovers & Losers (Sphere)

  • Star People (Sphere)

  • Shameless (Abacus)


Non-Fiction

  • Queen's Country (Abacus)

  • Gutterheart: Life According to Marc Almond (Dunce Directive)

  • What Are you Looking At? (Continuum International)

  • A Queer Romance (Routledge)