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One of Bibliofile's Most Anticipated Mystery/Thriller Books! "Great psychological suspense with a wallop of a twist." --Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub makes her trade paperback debut with a fast-paced thriller in the vein of Lisa Jewell's The Family Upstairs and Megan Collins' The Winter Sister. Here, a family making a fresh start moves into a house which was the site of an unsolved triple homicide--and are watched by an unknown person... The watcher sees who you are...and knows what you did. It's the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing around like a bloodhound. Nora unearths a long-hidden rusty box in the flowerbed. Oldest daughter Stacey, obsessed with the family murdered in their house, pokes into the bloody past and becomes convinced that a stranger is watching the house. Watching them. She's right. But one of the Howells will recognize his face. Because one of them has a secret that will blindside the others with a truth that lies shockingly close to home--and to this one's terrifying history.
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2.75 stars ⭐️⭐️✨
Honestly, it had a great start. I was super invested in the storyline. I thought the characters had personality, I liked the diverse case of characters as well.
Unfortunately, as much as I was loving it in the beginning, it's left me with a bunch of questions. Not that the ending was ambiguous, because it wasn't but so much didn't make sense to me. I feel like the twist wasn't my favorite trope and the explanations weren't great and didn't really explain anything at all. I feel like everything was quite convenient when it wanted it to be all while leaving the whole plot a blurr.
There was soooo much unneeded storylines. It just made everything so confusing. Disappointed.
So incredibly slow. Absolutely nothing happens and even the climax is so lacklustre it wasn't worth the pain of pushing through the whole book