"Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions...
Tricky, clever, unexpected." --New York Times Book Review "Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse." --People "A seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama." --A.
In Lisa Jewell\'s latest brilliant "bone-.
Fitzwilliam...
Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr.
Fitzwilliam is stalking her.
For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jenna\'s mother--whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years--is convinced that Mr.
One of Tom\'s students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and she\'s not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems.
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.
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.
And everyone is Watching you.
But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret.
It\'s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens.
Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics.
Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect "for fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Luckiest Girl Alive" (Library Journal).
J. "Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions...
Tricky, clever, unexpected." --New York Times Book Review "Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse." --People "A seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama." --A
