''I just loved itit truly wedged itself into my brain. Absolutely vile and brilliant. Plaything is an unhinged melody, and it will serenade fans of the darkest narratives.'' ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller ''A gloriously tense tale of obsession'' Financial Times Anna is smartSmarter than you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering. Annas new life in Cambridge is full of promiseshes the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has met an exhaustingly attractive manbut something is a little offPerhaps its the routine violence of her lab work with animals, or maybe its something to do with her boyfriends icy reserve but it seems there is a kind of menace hiding beneath the Cambridge dream. When Anna and Caden''s lives become tightly entangled, her obsession with Cadens seemingly ever-present ex-girlfriend reaches a dangerous pitchJust how