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The Neighbour

Legacy of Orïshak, Book 2

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The Neighbour

By: Fiona Cummins
Narrated by: Kelly Hotten
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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

The Neighbour by Fiona Cummins is a twisting thriller about a quiet neighbourhood that's hiding a deadly secret.

 Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Small Town & Rural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths

Critic Reviews

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.
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)
The Neighbour is masterfully written and intricately plotted to keep the reader captivated until a hugely enjoyable finale. (Jon Coates)
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)
It’s 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! (CJ 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 story tellers (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 didn’t see coming (Jenny Quintana)
Tension that creep 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)
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Too many characters and story jumping. Didn’t keep my interest. But if you like The Bill you will like this book.

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It was a story that was very hard to follow
Too many story lines and chopping between the past and to the present
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