Some readers might like earlier clues and more real police involvement but this book keep me involved until the end. Secrets abound in this neighborhood, and readers witness them firsthand through Jewell’s multiple narrators, and through a birds-eye view provided by Freddie, the neighborhood’s resident chronicler.

When her lifeless body is eventually discovered, Ana is sent to the big city to collect Bee’s belongings from her apartment. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present. Right off the bat, the reader learns a murder has taken place in Melville Heights but we don’t know who was murdered and who did it.As a naive adult, I was astonished at how much the teens used ‘Snapchat’ to communicate and to track each other with ‘Snap Map’. I found this book to be well thought out and going back to the police transcripts - I found them to be a very nice touch. Watching You is not particularly suspenseful or thrilling, but more of a observational novel of a community told from the perspective of those that live there and who like to take community watch a little too far at times.

She photographs it in situ from many angles, and then, with her gloved fingers, she plucks the tassel from the floor and drops it into an evidence bag, which she seals. Slow-burning yet simmering with tension and suspense, ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS is hypnotic, immersive, and emotionally-impactful—the kind of mystery you’ll sink into, not coming up for air until you’ve turned the final page. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France.

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A master at unspooling tightly told tales, Jewell specializes in perfectly-pitched thrillers without sacrificing a drop of her characters’ complexities, secrets, and desires, and this latest one is no exception. If you loved the movie Ready or Not or Jessica Knoll’s psychological thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, you’ll love Catherine Steadman’s THE FAMILY GAME. There are lots of twists and turns, and some that are easier to spot than others, but it is such a satisfying read. Lisa Jewell is the internationally bestselling author of sixteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller Then She Was Gone, as well as I Found You, The Girls in the Garden, and The House We Grew Up In.

I intentionally read a couple of Christmas mysteries during the Christmas season… and I absolutely loved it.