Born and raised in North London, S.B. Caves is the international bestselling author of A Killer Came Knocking and I Know Where She Is, which The Sun described as "sinister, unsettling and gripping."
His new high concept thriller is Honeycomb.
Caves now lives in South London with his wife and two sons.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six creepy novel about stalking and obsesson "with some of the most twisted plots and even more twisted antagonists." One titele on the list:
The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko ImamuraRead about the other books on the list.
There is something oddly dreamy and effortlessly troubling about this short but memorable novel by Natsuko Imamura. The story is told from the perspective of our narrator, The Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, as she slips into a deep and seeminglymotiveless infatuation with her new colleague, whom she refers to as The Woman in the Purple Skirt. What unravels is a subtle study of loneliness; our narrator is apparently unaware of how bizarre and downright creepy her spying becomes, as she shadows the subject of her curiosity through the mundane minutiae of their work as housekeepers at a hotel, before invading the most intimate aspects of her private life. The Woman in the Yellow Cardigan’s behavior, while never overtly threatening, is precisely unsettling because of how normal she makes her stalking seem. There is an unrelenting persistence to her observations that go mostly unnoticed throughout, yet the thought of someone dedicating all their energy and mental bandwidth to an unwitting participant is truly chilling.
--Marshal Zeringue
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