Watching You - Lisa Jewell

Blurb

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 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 all—including 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 Tom’s teenaged son Freddie—a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5—excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.

Review

This is a who-done-it with multiple characters, they all live on a street in Bristol, they are all watching each other and they all have strange quirks or secrets. The chapters flick between characters and are interspersed with police interview script. So you know someone is dead but you aren't sure who the victim or the murder is, the more is revealed the more you read. Sadly, this book didn't meet the high expectations I associate Lisa Jewell with (her previous novel - Then She Was Gone was one of my best reads of 2017!), I found it predictable and far-fetched. Freddie was my favourite character he was flawed but loveable. Overall it isn't a bad read, the message in the story is a good one and the closing chapters were poignant but it certainly didn't hit the mark for me. 

    

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