Sunday, March 10, 2019

Watching You by Lisa Jewell FIC Jew

         In Bristol, England there is a neighborhood called Melville Heights.  It is a very nice neighborhood filled with colorful, historic houses.  Among the inhabitants is the Fitzwilliam family.  Tom, the headmaster of the school, his wife Nicola, and their son Freddie.  Freddie attends a private school instead of his father's school.  He is socially awkward.  He spends most of his spare time spying on the neighborhood and writing it all down.
     Joey is a young woman who has had some big life changes.  Her mother died recently but Joey keeps her up to date through long one-sided conversations at the grave. Her big news is that she is now married to a guy named Alfie.  They really don't have any money so they are not the kind of people who live in this area.  Joey's brother, however, has recently moved into one of the houses with his wife Rebecca.  They have graciously invited the newlyweds to move in.
                                   Jenna also lives in the neighborhood.  She is a student at Tom's school.  Her young life as not been very carefree.  After a divorce her father took her brothers and moved about twenty miles away.  Jenna stays with her mother whose grasp of reality is not always the best.  She is paranoid and communicates online with groups of people who have their own paranoia.
          It is an interesting community and like any group of people there are secrets.
          Did I mention that the book begins with a crime scene?  In a kitchen there is dead body. Blood is everywhere due to the twenty knife wounds.  A vicious, personal murder.  
     It's a good book!!!

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