Atria Books
January 2019
On Sale: December 26, 2018
336 pages ISBN: 1501190075 EAN: 9781501190070 Kindle: B07GDSWRCH Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the โriveting thrillerโ (PopSugar) Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect โfor fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Luckiest Girl Aliveโ (Library Journal).
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. Itโs 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 allโincluding 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 Tomโs teenaged son Freddieโa prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5โexcels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.
One of Tomโs students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and sheโs 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 Jennaโs motherโwhose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent yearsโis 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. Fitzwilliamโฆ
In Lisa Jewellโs latest brilliant โbone-chilling suspenseโ (People) no one is who they seemโand everyone is hiding something. Who has been murderedโand who would have wanted one of their neighbors dead? As โJewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right paceโ (Booklist, starred review), you will be kept guessing until the startling revelation on the very last page.