Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Neighbors Are Watching in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio
Published: June 30, 2026
Summary:
From the “master of suburban scandal” (Samantha M. Bailey) comes a scandalous suburban thriller about privilege, unlikely friendships, and the lengths we go to protect our family.
Just outside Washington D.C. sits Eastbrook, Bethesda — a leafy suburb with top schools, manicured lawns, and friendly neighbors. It’s not the kind of place where nannies are shot during robberies gone wrong. But like any picture-perfect neighborhood, it’s been easy to cover up the shadows and move on.
A year after the unsolved neighborhood murder, Caren, nearing fifty and staring down an empty nest, has one too many drinks at a graduation party and blacks out on her way home. At least, that’s what everyone says happened. Caren suspects she was drugged by someone. But who?
When Caren teams up with a new neighbor who is desperate to figure out who murdered his best friend last year, they start to uncover what Eastbrook has tried to forget. But in a place where appearances are everything, their search for the truth means not only shattering carefully built façades — but putting themselves squarely in the crosshairs of a killer.
My thoughts:
I love a good, messy domestic thriller. Perhaps because I live in a suburban neighborhood, I can easily visualize these thrillers or it’s the fact that I loved Desperate Housewives, but whatever the case might be…these types of books always appeal to me and Aggie Blum Thompson never disappoints with delivering them!
Right from the start, I knew this was going to be a good one. Everyone was tangled up in everyone’s business…and everyone was hiding secrets. With two POVs and timelines, it kept me hooked because I didn’t know what to think or who to believe. Everyone was a suspect to me and I loved it!
If you love watching rich people behaving badly while scheming and lying, some morally grey, questionable characters and some timely, thought-provoking themes thrown in, this book is for you! I loved how the author delved into the consequences of privilege and silence and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Once I started this book, I couldn’t put it down…and even though it’s been a while since I finished it, I haven’t stopped thinking about it.
Audio thoughts:
This was great on audio, with narrator Alex Picard doing an amazing job bringing the story to life. There are a lot of characters, but I felt he handles it very well.
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