About Liar, Dreamer, Thief
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed.
But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she enacts the most powerful ritual she has to reclaim control—a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—and arrives just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide. Before he jumps, he slams her with a devastating accusation: his death is all her fault.
Horrified, Katrina combs through the clues she’s collected about Kurt over the last three years, but each revelation uncovers a menacing truth: for every moment she was watching him, he was watching her. And the past she thought she’d left behind? It’s been following her more closely than she ever could have imagined.
A gripping page-turner, as well as a sensitive exploration of mental health, Liar, Dreamer, Thief is an intimate portrayal of life in all its complexities—and the dangers inherent in unveiling people’s most closely guarded secrets.
- Complete Title: Liar, Dreamer, Thief
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 325
- Publication Time: January 10, 2023
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN: 1538723565
- ISBN13: 9781538723562
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Reviews Liar, Dreamer, Thief
While I was reading Liar, Dreamer, Thief, I felt like I was living inside the world of Katrina Kim, its infinitely loveable heroine. She’s a college dropout with a terrible job, a mess of a life and…
Blair
DNF 25% – No ratingThere could be a good story here, the 4.79 Goodreads rating and 26 five star reviews would lead me to believe so anyways but I am struggling to get into this. This book reminds me q…
Michelle
❀ insta ❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀ “Once upon a time, there was a girl with a vivid imagination, one who was not entirely sane. She was afraid of many thin…
luce (cry baby)
This book spoke to me. Katrina Kim is the most lovable, vulnerable mess of a human. I would find it concerning how much I identified with her* if I wasn’t too busy enjoying every bonkers moment of thi…
Ashley
This book was a wild ride! I felt immersed in our protagonist Katrina Kim’s story. She’s stuck in a lukewarm office job, barely making ends meet, while nursing an obsession with her co-worker Kurt…
Thomas
UPDATE: I was even luckier to get to read the finished copy! Here’s what I had to say:”A gorgeously written, genre-blending take on psychological suspense, Liar, Dreamer, Thief uses the frame of an in…
Ashley Winstead
Liar, Dreamer, Thief is an immensely ambitious novel that doesn’t miss the mark once. It brilliantly tackles mental health, workplace isolation, estrangement, support or lack thereof, reunions and s…
Amanda at Bookish Brews
I loved every moment of this. A beautiful, unsettling, deeply compassionate novel about mental health, obsession, and complicated families. Did I cry at the end? Definitely yes…
Grace Li
An exhilarating mystery which blurs the line between truth and fantasy. Unsettling, suspenseful, and filled with twists and turns, Liar, Dreamer, Thief is a wild ride of vengeance, obsessions, and the…