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The Neighbour
- Author
- Fiona Cummins
- Narrator
- Kelly Hotten
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 4 April 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Rating
- 5.0 (2 reviews)
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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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
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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.
Sunday Express
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The Neighbour is masterfully written and intricately plotted to keep the reader captivated until a hugely enjoyable finale.
Daily Express
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A crime novel of the very first order
David Baldacci on The Collector
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Trust me – Cummins is a keeper
Lee Child on The Collector
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An excellent read
Martina Cole on Rattle
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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
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An extraordinarily good writer. What a storyteller
Caz Frear
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The Neighbour is nerve-janglingly creepy, beautifully written and full of surprises
Holly Seddon
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[A] brilliant book. What a dark, creepy and twisted (in all senses of the word) tale!
CJ Tudor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Original, compelling and oh so creepy. Stock up on the sugar because you might never dare pop next door again.
Tammy Cohen
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An original plot, brilliantly crafted with the wonderfully atmospheric storytelling that readers have come to expect from Fiona Cummins.
Olivia Kiernan
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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
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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
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Kept me guessing and second guessing the whole way through. Storytelling at its best.
Patricia Gibney
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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
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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
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Incredibly creepy, intense, and compelling. Excellent.
Will Dean
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Creepy, menacing genius
C.L. Taylor
User Reviews
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Truly excellent.
Eviecatmum 2025-05-01
Details
- Author
- Fiona Cummins
- Narrator
- Kelly Hotten
- Duration
- 10 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9781509876921
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
- Rating
- 5.0(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
Creepy as hell and kept me guessing to the very end' - Ian RankinA 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 BaldacciDark, 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 NugentThe Neighbour by Fiona Cummins is a twisting thriller about a quiet neighbourhood that's hiding a deadly secret.
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