Aimee Molloy

Before she wrote thrillers, Aimee Molloy worked in non-fiction and as a collaborator. She helped Maziar Bahari set down his 118 days in an Iranian prison after the disputed election of 2009 in Then They Came for Me, reissued as Rosewater once Jon Stewart filmed it in 2014, and she wrote However Long the Night, on Molly Melching's decades of campaigning alongside women and girls in Senegal. Her first novel, The Perfect Mother, was a bestseller in 2018. Goodnight Beautiful, from Harper in 2020, moves a newly married couple out of New York City to a large Victorian house upstate, where Sam Statler sees therapy clients in a home office and every word carries up through a ceiling vent into the room above. Then he disappears.