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Laura Sims' new thriller, The Man , is out next summer

The novel is about a suburban housewife-turned-photographer, who begins seeing the dark shadow of a man in her self-portraits

The authors tells PEOPLE that the book was inspired by photographers like Cindy Sherman and Vivan Maier, along with two real-life stalking cases from the 1980s

What would you do if your artwork was infiltrated by an intruder?

Laura Sims’ new novel asks that very question. The acclaimed author’s upcoming suspense novel The Man , is due out next summer from G.P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House — and PEOPLE has a first look at the cover.

Judith Stanley is a housewife living in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, who takes up photography to fill her long days. What begins as

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