The Neighbour: An Addictive and Compelling Thriller from the Author of Into the Dark

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For fans of The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope and The Cottage by Lisa Stone, The Neighbour by Fiona Cummins is a twisting thriller about a quiet neighbourhood that's hiding a deadly secret. 'Creepy as hell and kept me guessing to the very end' - Ian Rankin A new home. A new start. It's all the Lockwoods want. And on The Avenue, a leafy street in an Essex town near the sea, it seems possible. But what if what they want isn't what they get On their moving-in day they arrive to a media frenzy. A serial killer has struck in the woods behind The Avenue. The police are investigating. And the neighbours quite clearly have secrets. With their dream quickly turning into a nightmare, the Lockwoods are watching everyone. But who's watching them Praise for Fiona Cummins: 'Trust me - Cummins is a keeper' - Lee Child 'Head and shoulders above the rest' - Val McDermid 'A crime novel of the very first order' - David Baldacci Dark, intriguing and gripping' - Laura Marshall 'What a storyteller' - Caz Frear 'A nightmarishly addictive read' - CJ Tudor 'Enthralled from beginning to end as each page drips with threat and menace' - Liz Nugent

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This thriller explores typically dark territory for this author, who has a gift for tapping a rich seam of evil that underpins the surface of the every day. Superbly sinister * Sunday Mirror *
She is the master of depicting the way the most terrifyingly grotesque and evil psychopaths inveigle their way into the lives of ordinary people . . . when writing from the perspective of ordinary people caught up in horrific events, Fiona Cummins is unbeatable -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express *
Creepy as hell, and kept me guessing to the very end -- Ian Rankin
A crime novel of the very first order -- David Baldacci on The Collector
Trust me Cummins is a keeper -- Lee Child on The Collector
An excellent read -- Martina Cole on Rattle
Its a rare debut that has this much polish. Harrowing and horrifying, head and shoulders above most of the competition -- Val McDermid on Rattle
An extraordinarily good writer. What a storyteller -- Caz Frear
The Neighbour is nerve-janglingly creepy, beautifully written and full of surprises -- Holly Seddon
[A] brilliant book. What a dark, creepy and twisted (in all senses of the word) tale -- C. J. Tudor
Fiona is the mistress of tension building and the way she weaved that tangled web of suspects and motives left me breathless. Truly magnificent -- Jo Spain
I could not stop reading, every turned page revealing secrets, increasingly strange and fascinating . . . I loved The Neighbour, a feat of masterful plotting from one of my favourite storytellers -- Amanda Reynolds
Fiona Cummins drew me in from the very first page with her original and compelling prose. Dark, creepy and intense with brilliant characters and a clever plot with an ending I didnt see coming -- Jenny Quintana
Tension that creeps all the way through, but a pace and language so precise and right that it felt like I was watching a movie . . . This book will linger -- Hayley Webster
Fiona's books are so masterfully crafted and beautifully written . . . A disturbing observation of a community and the secrets hidden within it, a dark and compelling read -- Debbie Howells
Original, compelling and oh-so creepy. Stock up on the sugar because you might never dare pop next door again -- Tammy Cohen
An original plot, brilliantly crafted with the wonderfully atmospheric storytelling that readers have come to expect from Fiona Cummins -- Olivia Kiernan
Fiona Cummins is the queen of all things dark and wonderful, and she writes so beautifully. It creeped me the hell out and I absolutely LOVED it -- Joanna Cannon
I was enthralled from beginning to end as every page drips with threat and menace . . . Totally gripping with a cast of ghastly characters, one worse than the next -- Liz Nugent
Kept me guessing and second-guessing the whole way through. Storytelling at its best -- Patricia Gibney
You'll be curtain twitching after reading this a deeply unsettling and brilliantly claustrophobic novel that will have you questioning how well you know your neighbours -- Michelle Frances
Fiona Cummins has concocted a frightening tale that's compulsive reading. I couldn't put it down, despite the fact that I started each new chapter with a creeping sense of dread and the hairs standing up on the back of my neck -- Alison Belsham
Incredibly creepy, intense and compelling. Excellent -- Will Dean
Creepy, menacing genius -- C. L. Taylor

Author Bio

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.