Hen and her husband, Lloyd, have just left Boston for the quiet burbs, and things are looking for her. And that this is the beginning of a horrible nightmare from which he cannot live to escape. Then, one night, when he is face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, he realizes that he knows that he has been watching him, that he is really interested in him. The more Hen observes Matthew, the more he suspects that he is planning something really scary. Hen knows because he has always been fascinated with this unsolved murder, an obsession he no longer talks about, but he can't shake off completely.Ĭould your neighbor, Matthew, be a murderer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one he suffered in college when it was consumed so much by proving that a fellow student was guilty that he ended up hurting a classmate? The sports trophy looks exactly like one who disappeared from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Finally, he has found some stability and peace.īut when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode when they see a familiar object shown on the shelf in the husband's office.

Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works in a close study, and has found the right medications to control her bipolar disorder.

Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled in a quiet life in a new house on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. From the enormously talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling story of a young suburban wife with a story of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder.

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