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Percy Phoinikos has always believed in earning everything through hard work. By day, she helps others as an unconventional therapist, and by night, she enjoys a peaceful life with her loving family. Grounded in logic and reality, Percy trusts only what she can see and feel until her lifelong dream of owning a home comes true almost too easily. But as the saying goes, when something seems too perfect, there is always a catch.

In Whistling Indoors: A Percy Phoinikos Thriller Book One, a seemingly ordinary night spirals into terror, leading Percy into the quiet suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where buried secrets begin to surface. As murder, mystery, and myth collide, Percy finds herself trapped between dangerous truths and the people she loves most. With dark forces closing in and a devastating confrontation looming, Percy must face revelations that threaten to destroy everything she has built setting the stage for an even deadlier reckoning in Book Two.

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Whistling Indoors

Matthew Pollard

Psychological Thriller / Mystery Author

Rated 5 out of 5

In ‘Whistling Indoors’, Matthew Pollard delivers a chilling psychological thriller filled with mystery, suspense, and disturbing secrets lurking beneath ordinary lives. Follow Percy Phoinikos as she becomes entangled in a terrifying chain of events involving strange whistling, unexplained disappearances, guilt, addiction, and a darkness that refuses to stay hidden. As reality begins to blur, Percy discovers that some horrors don’t simply haunt the mind they follow you home.

Publisher

: Chicago Write

Lenght

: TBD (Manuscript is in development)

Language

: English

Genre

: Psychological Thriller

Enter the Shadows of Whistling Indoors

What begins as Percy Phoinikos’s dream of owning a home quickly spirals into a nightmare filled with buried secrets, unexplained terror, and deadly truths. By day, Percy lives as an unconventional therapist devoted to helping others. By night, she finds herself pulled into a chilling mystery that threatens everything she believes about reality.

Set between the uneasy quiet of suburban Pittsburgh and nights drenched in fear, Whistling Indoors blends psychological suspense, crime, and paranormal tension into a gripping thriller that keeps readers questioning every shadow.

As hidden truths emerge and danger closes in, Percy must confront murder, myth, and the haunting consequences of secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Genre: Psychological Thriller / Paranormal Mystery
Themes: Secrets, Fear, Survival & Family Legacy
Available In: Hardcover, Paperback & Kindle

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Launching 2026

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Our Satisfied Readers

Absolute psychological mastery! The way Pollard weaves therapy into a thriller is brilliant

Sarah J.

Percy Phoinikos is a character you won't soon forget. Gripping from start to finish.

Michael R =

The best debut thriller of 2026. A must-read for fans of psychological suspense

Fiction Hub

The atmosphere is so thick you can feel the Pittsburgh chill. Captivating writing

David P

Whistling Indoors kept me up all night. Immersive and hauntingly beautiful.

Jessica M

A mind-bending story that plays with your perceptions. I couldn't put it down!

Dr. Alan Smith

Pure suspense! Matthew Pollard has earned his place among the thriller greats

Karen B

I've read many thrillers, but none have felt as visceral as this

Robert H