You First

“You has always mirrored the culture. The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales. . . . In a way, the You series has been about the male loneliness epidemic before it had a name.”—TIME

“The most distinctive voice in thrillers is back with a master class in tone and tension. A deliciously dark treat—Caroline Kepnes is in a league of her own.”—Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Feast

“Joe Goldberg at his most raw and vulnerable before love curdled into violence . . . Caroline Kepnes delivers a dark, disturbing, and utterly compelling origin story that feels chillingly authentic, with writing so sharp and character work so precise it makes every turn feel inevitable.”—Liv Constantine, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

“A Y2K setting, adolescent anxiety, laugh-out-loud details, and a drum-tight, propulsive plot: This book is everything you ever wanted in a You novel and then some. Buckle up, because Teen Joe’s mind is a dark, dark place—and I loved every second of my visit.”—Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Ferry Out

“At last, we have the answers to who Joe is. . . . Caroline Kepnes has created an unnerving, astounding psychological portrait, a book you can’t close until the last page is turned. Deep, dark, twisted and beautifully written.”—Catriona Ward, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Burning

“American Psycho meets You’ve Got Mail in this scathing, brilliantly written antihero origin story that asks, When it comes to love, are we all monsters?”—Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors

“Unsettling, intimate, and oddly hot, darkly seductive and impossible to put down, You First creeps under your skin.”—Lukas Gage, author of I Wrote This for Attention

“Kepnes has fun dropping Easter eggs into the narrative and getting creative about the precise details of Joe’s burgeoning criminality. The result is a wicked treat for series fans and newcomers alike.”—Publishers Weekly

“In this revealing prequel, fans of Kepnes’ You series will revel again in Joe Goldberg’s incisive wit and love-crossed menace. . . . Joe’s all-caps commentary offers laugh-out-loud humor, and his increasingly unhinged narrative turns pages.”—Booklist