William Morrow is proud to publish A NOISE DOWNSTAIRS by New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay (On Sale: July 24, 2018), a haunting psychological thriller that blends twists and turns with driving suspense, and has everything readers want: murder, a protagonist facing the crisis of his life, and just when you think you’ve figured it all out, guess again.

College professor Paul Davis is an ordinary guy with a normal life—a house on the Long Island Sound in Connecticut, a second wife, a young son, and a steady teaching job. But one night that normal existence is turned completely upside down when Paul spots a colleague driving along a deserted road. Concerned and curious, he decides to follow Kenneth, catching him in a horrifying act – trying to dispose of two bodies. Nearly losing his life in the encounter, readers find Paul eight months later still battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems that keep him from work and that are creating tension with his wife, Charlotte. One of Paul’s only sources of comfort is his sessions with his psychologist, Anna, who specializes in trauma and disturbed patients.

To cheer him up, Charlotte brings home a gift—a vintage typewriter, complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—to encourage him to start the novel he’s always wanted to write. With Anna’s support, Paul believes writing

Paul swears he can hear it typing in the middle of the night. Yet only he can hear the noise coming from downstairs; Charlotte doesn’t hear a thing and she worries he’s going off the rails. As Paul digs deeper, he becomes convinced that the typewriter is somehow connected to the murders. But how?

No longer sure what is real or what is in his mind, Paul starts to question everything and begins investigating the deaths himself. But if he doesn’t begin to accept the truth and walk away from the past, his darkest terrors just might come true.