Published by HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter
Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Book Description:
When Leah Talbot crashes her car one night, she spots a light on in a nearby house and approaches, hoping that someone is home.
He is.
Charming, handsome, Martin Tate answers the door to the bedraggled and traumatised Leah, inviting her in. Though she’s not there for long, Leah feels an indescribable pull to the man who has helped in her hour of need.
But when she returns the next morning to say thank you, it isn’t Martin who answers the door this time. It’s the police.
There’s been a brutal murder and the female homeowner is lying dead in a pool of blood upstairs in bed.
There’s no sign of Martin…
Until he comes looking for Leah.
The Good Neighbour is a nerve-shredding domestic suspense thriller of secrets and serial killers perfect for fans of Sharon Bolton and S. E. Lynes.
My Thoughts:
I'm finding this book tricky to review to be honest. Bits of it, yes I found creepy and believable. Others less so.
A young woman crashes her car into a ditch after hitting a deer on a dark road late at night. She knocks on the door of the nearest house. Yep, all okay so far. Then it all went off track...Would you actually enter the house, alone, at night? I suppose if there was only a landline available to use then, possibly. I found this unlikely in this day and age, especially when the man in the house knows he really shouldn't be there and the reason he actually is. I don't want to give spoilers to the story for those who are yet to read this book but suffice to say I think it highly unlikely that he would have even opened the door, let alone invited another person in and risk exposing the events of the evening.
Once I had that doubt in my mind I'm afraid various other elements of the story also became more and more implausible and I often found my mind wandering into the realms of considering what I thought would have actually happened in real life. I know it's fiction but there's only so far I can stretch it before I stop enjoying the story. Then the latter part of the story with Leah's neighbours, husband and Uncle Tom Cobley and all getting roped in...nope. You lost me completely and I pretty much skimmed to the end.
Sorry, not one for me.
About the Author:
R J Parker's creative career began as a TV script writer, script editor and producer. It was this background that fed into a series of cinematic, high-concept thrillers that grabs the reader from the very first page and doesn't release them until the last. R J Parker now lives in Salisbury. One More Chapter/HarperCollins have published THE DINNER PARTY, WHILE YOU SLEPT and THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR with a fourth book to be published in July of 2021. As Richard Parker he has written the thrillers STOP ME, SCARE ME, STALK ME, FOLLOW YOU, HIDE AND SEEK, KEEP HER SAFE, NEVER SAY GOODBYE and THE SONGBIRD GIRLS.
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