Nearby, a young woman waits for morning, and for the estate agent to arrive with the keys to her new life in the peaceful fishing village.

As Max attempts to protect her, he is haunted by a nightmare of his own: the reappearance of the terrorist he killed with his car at the start of The Murder Bag.I think this might be Tony Parsons' best book yet! I could not put it down, I was gripped the whole way through. I finished the book devastated it was over. I needed more, not because it left anything unfinished, but just because the book was that good I wanted to keep reading it. It then jumps into the paranoid "everyone is out to get me" with the wife spotting areas of concerns, finding bones in the garden, putting two and two together that sinister things are afoot. Rosemary's Baby to the character names (a Roman). Toxix herbs are potentially used as murder weapons. The story wears its influences transparently.

A house with a safe room that gets mentioned frequently but then doesn't get used when somebody is in the house threatening Lana. Overall much of this is enjoyable especially the first 60% but the last 30% percent is not to my taste. Finishing this book last night, I was left musing about how I felt about the book. It was definitely addictive reading and kept me hooked. The parts which left me wondering, were, I felt, a little too far-fetched.

Then Lana discovers what happened to the previous residents of their house… And she becomes concerned about the whereabouts of a woman who left her husband and teenage son and hasn’t been in touch with them. Is there actually something dark going on in the perfect little road? The more Lana voices her concerns, the more her husband and the neighbours accuse her of being ‘mad’. Wow, what a great book! I loved everything about it. I haven't read Tony Parson's books for a while, and I now feel like I've missed out on some great reads.' This psychological thriller starts off OK, plods around clunkily, and then ends in a finale that embarrasses both the reader and the writer (probably not the writer).

If you want a fast-paced psychological thriller where nobody is really what they seem and your allegiances are challenged throughout then this is definitely one for you. Photographer Lana, moves with husband and GP Roman, from busy, bustling city life, to the idyllic and relaxing countryside. Becoming tenants of ‘The Gardens’, a residential close where all the houses are large and expensive, and the residents are secretive and mysterious, Lana struggles to settle in. Are the neighbours hiding something sinister, or is she imagining it all? I couldn't leave the book for a minute until I'd discovered how it would all end ... A brilliant book .' Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.

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Their new home is their dream. Their new neighbours are welcoming. The Gardens feels like the perfect place for the Wades – Lana and Roman, a photographer and a doctor – to begin again. Lana and Roman Wade have fled the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with it's unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the calling green hills of Oxfordshire. Their new home, set in the residential close known as The Gardens, is their dream and their new neighbours are charming. So why is Lana feeling so uneasy? Lana and Roman may seem like an attractive, popular couple. But they also have a secret; a secret buried in the life they left behind, a secret they have shared with no one. As Lana struggles to adjust to her new life in Paradise, she becomes convinced that her new neighbours are hiding something from her, something connected with the deaths of the family who lived in her house before she did, something that could put her own life in danger...