Title: Watching You
Author: Lisa Jewell
Publisher: Atria Books
Rating: 📖📖📖📖 / 5
From the book jacket:
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England, home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret and prying eyes lurk behind every curtain."
Jewell focuses her book around a group of characters that, to be honest, are all a bit dodgy. You have the flawed female character, Joey, who got married to her husband, Alfie after knowing him for less than a month. They move in with Joey's "perfect" brother Jack and his wife, Rebecca. Then you also have the well-known school head, Tom and his wife Nicola and son Freddie, "the watcher in the window". Finally, you have student Jenna and her mentally troubled mom.
We find out that a gruesome murder has occurred but have little to no context to work with at first. As the story goes one, Jewell reveals details about the murder through police interviews that keep the reader hooked. Jewell does an excellent job of not revealing too many vital details early in the book. I usually find myself figuring out who the perpetrator is too soon and it utterly ruins the book. However, I didn't see this one coming at all until the end. And it was great! The characters are developed in such a way that it is hard to tell who is "good" and who is "bad". EVERYONE is flawed and it is easily believable that any of the characters could be the killer.
Pick this one up if you're looking for a good thriller with a twist you likely will not suspect!
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