The pristine lawns, expensive homes, and carefully curated lives of Bethesda’s elite hide a surprising number of ugly secrets in The Neighbors Are Watching by Aggie Blum Thompson, a twisty suburban thriller that explores what happens when privilege, obsession, and desperation collide after a murder rocks an affluent community.
Just outside Washington, D.C., the wealthy neighborhood of Eastbrook is still reeling from the unsolved murder of a nanny one year earlier. When nearly-empty-nester Caren wakes up after a graduation party with gaps in her memory and evidence suggesting she drank herself into oblivion, she suspects something much darker happened. As she begins investigating alongside a new neighbor determined to solve his best friend’s murder, long-buried secrets begin to surface—and someone is willing to kill to keep them hidden.
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