The Body Next Door

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Everybody needs good neighbours

When Claire Corral goes missing from her home on Carnation Way, her neighbour Jamie isnt too concerned. Hes busycaring for his dad, recovering from a broken heart and eating himself into a bigger pair of pants.

Then the police turn up.

Is Claires disappearance connected with the body found next door thirteen years ago Does Jamies father, now grappling with dementia, know more about these events than he should And then theres Tess, equal parts mysterious and charming, who just moved in at number thirty-five

As Jamie asks around, an unsettling picture begins to form. Perhaps quiet, respectable Carnation Way is home to the same secrets and heartaches as any other neighbourhoodwith a few more murders thrown in.

Zane Lovitt, the Ned Kelly Award-winning author of The Midnight Promise, returns with a gloriously entertaining and compelling suburban mystery-thriller.

Reviews

The Midnight Promise delivers. Zane Lovitt is a writer to watch.

* Shane Maloney *

[Lovitt has] an attentive ear for language and a nuanced understanding of how quite ordinary extraordinary people may find themselves up to their necks in trouble. This is original Australian crime fiction of the first order.

* Age on Black Teeth *

'Superb characterisation and meticulously curated exchanges heighten the tension throughout, while recognisable Melbourne landmarks and Australian colloquialisms imbue the narrative with an unsettling familiarityculminating in a surprising ending that will turn every expectation on its head.

* Big Issue on Black Teeth *

Its Aussie noir, but much funnier than your standard noir, and Lovitt is a wonderfully inventive writer.

* New Zealand Listener on Black Teeth *
There are only a few authors who I can still vividly remember the first time I ever discovered them. The moment, the feeling, stuck in my reading memoryYou knew youve just read a writer who you will follow anywhere. Im adding Zane Lovitt to that list. -- Jon Page * Bite the Book on The Midnight Promise *

Author Bio

Zane Lovitts debut novel, The Midnight Promise, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and led to Zane being named one of the Best Young Novelists of 2013 by the Sydney Morning Herald. He lives in Melbourne.