Tell Two Friends

A Letter That Waited Thirty-Six Years

Tell Two Friends begins with a mistake Jane Baye made in the 1990s. She wrote to an incarcerated stranger believing the recipient was a woman; thirty-six years later, that person moves in next door, and Jane discovers he is a man who has been watching her every move.

Small-Town Life Meets a Watching Neighbor

The novel is Ann Garvin’s first suspense story, shifting the contemporary-fiction author toward a threat that is both intimate and unnervingly patient. Its tension comes home with Jane: the danger is not a distant secret from her past but a new neighbor close enough to observe the rhythms of her daily life.

“It’s my first book of suspense, and leaning into the absurdity of small-town life colliding with big-city danger was incredibly fun.”

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An Old Assumption Comes Due

That decades-long gap gives the premise its hook. Jane has had most of a lifetime to forget a correspondence the man next door may have spent just as long remembering, turning one misread identity into a confrontation with consequences she never expected.

Tell Two Friends arrives September 8, bringing an ominous edge to Garvin’s eye for the strange social machinery of small-town life.