I finished reading another novel. I am very glad I picked this book up at my local bookstore. The book starts off with showing you that someone has been murdered. After that, you meet the characters that live in Meville Heights. Everyone is either watching someone or being watched by someone, leaving you with a creepy feeling. The book will leave you guessing who the murderer is till the very end (make sure you read the epilogue provided at the end of the novel and don’t skip over that part, I can’t explain why or it’ll ruin the book). Anyway, if you want a suspenseful “sit on the edge of your seat” thriller then this is the book for you. I think you’ll be surprised. I sure was!

Synopsis: Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It’s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you.

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. 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.

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. 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. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.

Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam…