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A marital thriller more scary than Gone Girl." —The Washington Post
A scathing and exhilarating thriller that begins with a husband's obsession with the seemingly vacant house next door.
     It's wintertime in the Hamptons, where Scott and his wife, Elise, have come to be with her terminally ill father, Victor, to await the inevitable. As weeks turn to months, their daily routine—Elise at the hospital with her father, Scott pretending to work and drinking Victor's booze—only highlights their growing resentment and dissatisfaction with the usual litany of unhappy marriages: work, love, passion, each other. But then Scott notices something simple, even innocuous. Every night at precisely eleven, the lights in the neighbor's bedroom turn off. It's clearly a timer . . .but in the dead of winter with no one else around, there's something about that light he can't let go of. So one day while Elise is at the hospital, he breaks in. And he feels a jolt of excitement he hasn't felt in a long time. Soon, it's not hard to enlist his wife as a partner in crime and see if they can't restart the passion. 
     Their one simple transgression quickly sends husband and wife down a deliriously wicked spiral of bad decisions, infidelities, escalating violence, and absolutely shocking revelations. 
     Matt Marinovich makes a strong statement with this novel. The Winter Girl is the psychological thriller done to absolute perfection.
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A marital thriller more scary than Gone Girl." —The Washington Post
A scathing and exhilarating thriller that begins with a husband's obsession with the seemingly vacant house next door.
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     Their one simple transgression quickly sends husband and wife down a deliriously wicked spiral of bad decisions, infidelities, escalating violence, and absolutely shocking revelations. 
     Matt Marinovich makes a strong statement with this novel. The Winter Girl is the psychological thriller done to absolute perfection.
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      • source: The Washington Post
      • content: "A marital thriller more scary than Gone Girl...Even though The Winter Girl is dark and dismal -- Marinovich may have given birth to Hamptons noir -- the novel is, essentially, the anatomy of a marriage and what happens when deadly secrets, like poisonous snakes, threaten those who seek to get close to them. Marinovich writes with startling authenticity about how it feels to be in a miserable relationship....If you had a love/hate relationship with Nick and Amy Dunne, the crazy couple at the center of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, you'll feel equally at home with Scott and Elise -- just be forewarned that this devilishly good story is scads more scary. To quote Scott, "The worst decisions never let you go. They come circling back, even on the best days, to find you."
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      • source: Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan
      • content: "It seems like a knife ought to play some part in Matt Marinovich's The Winter Girl, because that's what his story feels like: sharp and delightfully treacherous. It cuts, and then it cuts some more. Marinovich is merciless toward his characters--toward his readers, too. This is one of the leanest, meanest books I've read in a long, long time. I suspect Jim Thompson would've loved it. James M. Cain, too. And Patricia Highsmith. That's how great this book is."
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      • source: The Sacramento Bee
      • content: "The novel summons elements of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 masterpiece "Rear Window" (from a short story by Cornell Woolrich) and "Gone Girl," the ongoing best-seller by Gillian Flynn, though it is darker than both....[The Winter Girl] moves into dangerous territory as one shocking surprise leads to the next, culminating in mayhem and revelations of twisted family secrets."
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      • source: Travel + Leisure (online)
      • content: "Marinovch's novel, set in wintertime in the Hamptons, is a sexy update of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Scott and Elise are staying in the Hamptons to care for her aging father. Scott's irrepressible curiosity about the vacant house next door leads to a dangerous and thrilling discovery."
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      • source: Publishers Weekly
      • content: "The bleak landscape of the Hamptons in winter provides the backdrop for this absorbing thriller from Marinovich...an engrossing, disquieting read for a chilly night."
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      • source: Kirkus
      • content: "[The Winter Girl] is a dark and ever darkening psychological thriller."
      • premium: False
      • source: Library Journal
      • content: "Family secrets and marital transgressions weave a suspenseful Hitchcockian story of intrigue, mystery, and deceit."
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      • source: Booklist
      • content: "The twists are clever and the pacing relentless."
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      • source: New York Daily News' Page Views
      • content: "Author Matt Marinovich has crafted a riveting, gruesome and dark story as chilling as the winter landscape. The isolation he has created is striking." -- Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star "The Winter Girl is a page-turner. Once the surprises start coming out, it's hard to put down.... Marinovich has delivered an intriguing and fast-paced read if you're looking for something to keep you up on a cold winter's night."
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        November 2, 2015
        The bleak landscape of the Hamptons in winter provides the backdrop for this absorbing thriller from Marinovich (Strange Skies). Scott and Elise, a troubled couple who live in Brooklyn, are staying in the house of Elise’s abusive and dying father, Victor, in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. While Elise tends to Victor in the hospital, Scott becomes obsessed with the purportedly vacant house next door. Hoping to forestall their marriage’s disintegration by sharing his adventures with Elise, he convinces her to join him in breaking into the house, where they discover a large, unexplained bloodstain on a mattress in the master bedroom. When Scott asks Victor whether he knows anything about a possible murder at the neighboring house, Victor mumbles something about the “winter girl.” Scott soon learns that Elise’s family—and Elise herself—harbor some malevolent secrets. The revelations about Elise’s character seem rushed at times, and Scott’s own motivations aren’t always clear. Still, this is an engrossing, disquieting read for a chilly night. Agent: David Gernert, Gernert Company.

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        September 15, 2015
        The sophomore effort from Marinovich (Strange Skies, 2007) is a dark and ever darkening psychological thriller set in a bleak Hamptons winter. It starts with promise and with psychological finesse: young Brooklyn couple Scott and Elise have retreated to Shinnecock Hills to tend to her dying father. Elise spends days at the hospital with the captious, malevolent patient while Scott, a photographer, grows stir-crazy in the old man's solitary bayside house. Narrator Scott is smart about his floundering marriage: "misery is just another art form, as hard to perfect as any other craft, only we aim to leave nothing behind. We're the copper thieves of our own houses, ripping out our own wires." In a misguided quest for excitement, Scott breaks into an abandoned summer place next door, and when that venture provides the transgressive jolt he needs, he recruits his wife for a return visit. Their trespass leads to a grisly discovery and, from there, into a welter of interlocking scandals and intrigues involving the father, Elise, her jailbird brother, and the Winter Girl of the title. The novel's second half devolves into a noisy, almost parodic noir, with too much coincidence, too many nested secrets, and too many people acting according to motives that seem cooked up in a laboratory where someone's trying to purify blackheartedness. But it all moves briskly, and the beginning is compelling enough to keep the reader turning pages.

        COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      • premium: True
      • source: Library Journal
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        September 15, 2015

        Newly married couple Scott and Elise have relocated to Elise's dying father's home in the Hamptons. As his condition deteriorates, Elise spends much of her time at the hospital with her father, a volatile man who mistreated Elise as a child and disrespected the young couple even after marriage. During her days out, Scott becomes fixated on the seemingly vacant house next door. One night the couple breaks in together. After engaging in a spontaneous tryst in a spare bedroom, the pair attempts to clean up after themselves, and in horror they notice dried bloody bedsheets. What ensues is an unraveling of the couple's marriage and psyches. VERDICT Family secrets and marital transgressions weave a suspenseful Hitchcockian story of intrigue, mystery, and deceit. In a dark departure from his debut novel, Strange Skies, Marinovich offers a promising premise with a disturbing, fast-paced plot. While the ending may leave something to be desired, this is a quick read for fans of psychological thrillers. Recommended for readers of Gillian Flynn, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French.--Carolann Curry, Mercer Univ. Lib., Macon, GA

        Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • premium: True
      • source: Booklist
      • content:

        October 15, 2015
        Scott and Elise are spending a depressing December in the Hamptons, where Elise's father is dying a drawn-out death. Her brother is in prison, so Elise has the main responsibility for the old man's care. Meanwhile, Scott, an out-of-work photographer, becomes obsessed with the empty beach house next door. One day, to escape the gloom, he decides to break into the house as a lark. What he discovers is not fun and games. (Well, there are some games.) When Elise finds out what he's been up to and follows him over, they unearth evidence of a bloody crime. What exactly has been going on in the vacant home? And who is involved? This short, grim novel quickly spirals into depths of despair and violence that will leave readers seeking out their happy places, but the twists are clever and the pacing relentless. It contains very graphic depictions of sex and torture, so use caution when recommendingand perhaps offer a chaser of something nice: a few lighthearted cat mysteries, anyone?(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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     It's wintertime in the Hamptons, where Scott and his wife, Elise, have come to be with her terminally ill father, Victor, to await the inevitable. As weeks turn to months, their daily routine—Elise at the hospital with her father, Scott pretending to work and drinking Victor's booze—only highlights their growing resentment and dissatisfaction with the usual litany of unhappy marriages: work, love, passion, each other. But then Scott notices something simple, even innocuous. Every night at precisely eleven, the lights in the neighbor's bedroom turn off. It's clearly a timer . . .but in the dead of winter with no one else around, there's something about that light he can't let go of. So one day while Elise is at...
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