Someone We Know

An anonymous note lands at several houses on a quiet, leafy suburban street. The writer apologises: their son has been getting into people's homes, and yours was one of them. Nobody knows who the boy is or what he found inside, and the polite neighbourly calm soon turns into whispers and suspicion. Then a local woman who has been missing is found murdered.

Shari Lapena, the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, builds this whodunnit from ordinary streets and the secrets kept behind front doors. The shop description notes that the tension tightens steadily as the question of how far very nice people will go to protect themselves becomes harder to ignore. It suits anyone who has ever wondered what the neighbours are really like.