âQuickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicionsâŠTricky, clever, unexpected.â âNew York Times Book Review
âBrace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse.â âPeople
âA seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama.â âA.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect âfor fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Luckiest Girl Aliveâ (Library Journal).
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. Itâs not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you.
As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and allâincluding Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tomâs teenaged son Freddieâa prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5âexcels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.
One of Tomâs students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and sheâs not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jennaâs motherâwhose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent yearsâis convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. FitzwilliamâŠ
In Lisa Jewellâs latest brilliant âbone-chilling suspenseâ (People) no one is who they seemâand everyone is hiding something. Who has been murderedâand who would have wanted one of their neighbors dead? As âJewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right paceâ (Booklist, starred review), you will be kept guessing until the startling revelation on the very last page.
Anki
2022-04-08
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