I didn’t much care for Lloyd’s character, his personality didn’t seem to stand out one way or the other.
With her meds corrected and a move to a new area, she and her husband, Lloyd, are looking for a fresh start. Once she ended up hospitalized after she became obsessed with a neighbourhood boy’s murder. She also happens to be bi-polar and has, in the past, experienced manic episodes. She is an artist who makes really creepy art, which ties in with her fascination with death and all things morbid.
I’m just going to lay it out a bit differently. There are lots of places you can read a recap of the story, and they do a much better job than I would be able to do so please go and check those out. You almost want to slow it down, draw it out because even though you want to know what happens, you don’t want it to be over. Great characters, clear storyline with lots of surprises and a build up of suspense that propels you forward until the end. I’m late in the game for Peter Swanson books but now that I have read this one, I’m checking out all his other books. My opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.What we have here is a good old fashioned psychological thriller that finally lives up to the hype. Many thanks to NetGalley, Faber and Faber and Peter Swanson for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Then one night, when she comes face-to-face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him and that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying.
Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder - an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore but can’t fully shake, either.Ĭould her neighbor Matthew be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate? The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago.
Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.īut when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Hen and her husband, Lloyd, have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Catching a killer is dangerous - especially if he lives next door.įrom the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder.
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