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The New Neighbours
By (Author) Claire Douglas
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
13th April 2025
13th March 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Interior life
Family life fiction
Hardback
400
Width 164mm, Height 242mm, Spine 35mm
617g
You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . . Dive into the gripping new thriller from The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller When Lena helps her teenage son with his media studies project, she doesn't expect a boom-microphone to pick up a conversation between her neighbours, the Morgans. And she's certain they are planning a crime. Her family and friends tell her that she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are an upstanding couple in their early sixties. Yet Lena can't stop thinking about it. Because what if she hasn't misheard What if she can prevent it And in doing so, it might help ease her conscience about her own dark past . . .
-- -- PRAISE FOR CLAIRE DOUGLAS
I loved this twisty novel -- RICHARD OSMAN
Outstanding * THE TIMES *
Extraordinarily clever -- ANDREA MARA
A real treat for psychological thriller fans -- T. M. LOGAN
Clever and terrifically compelling -- SARAH PEARSE
Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, but had dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with her first novel, The Sisters. She is a Sunday Times bestseller and a frequent Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Her books have sold nearly two million copies in the UK alone. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.