{"id":33987,"date":"2019-01-28T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33987"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:08:55","slug":"watching-you-by-lisa-jewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/watching-you-by-lisa-jewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching You by Lisa Jewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am a huge fan of mystery and psychological thrillers and\u00a0Watching You<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Lisa Jewell is a fabulous addition to the genre.\u00a0 The twists and turns in this thriller will keep you guessing until literally the last paragraph.\u00a0 The book begins with a murder in an affluent English town but the reader does not know the who, what, when, where or how.\u00a0 With an opening such as this, the tension grows and every character’s motivations are suspect until the true killer is revealed.<\/p>\n

Newlyweds Joey Mullen and her husband Alfie have just moved to the exclusive neighborhood of Melville Heights in Bristol, England.\u00a0 Unable to afford rent on their own, they take up residence with Joey’s brother and sister-in-law.\u00a0 As a newcomer in the neighborhood, Joey befriends Tom Fitzwilliam, the beloved local school headmaster who lives two doors away and her initial friendship turns quickly from infatuation to obsession.\u00a0 But, unbeknownst to Joey,\u00a0 someone is watching through their photographic lens.\u00a0 It is Tom’s teenage son, Freddie, who documents the goings on in Melville\u00a0Heights and sees the blossoming relationship his dad is starting with Joey.<\/p>\n

But Joey isn’t the only person in this neighborhood who is obsessed with Tom Fitzwilliam.\u00a0 Bess, a young student at the school, is observed slipping in and out of the headmaster’s office by Jenna, another teen in the neighborhood and the speculation grows.\u00a0 Does Tom have secrets to hide?\u00a0 \u00a0To add to the intrigue Jenna’s mother is convinced a group of neighbors, headed by Fitzwilliam, is stalking her.\u00a0 Young Freddie and Jenna join forces and with their prying eyes discover a decades old suicide which will bring motivations for murder to light.\u00a0\u00a0Everyone has a reason, but who is willing to kill in order to keep a secret and enact revenge?<\/p>\n

About half way throughout the book I thought I knew the ending, but I was completely shocked at the culprit and the twisted motivations behind the killing.\u00a0 I highly recommend Watching You<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for suspense and thriller fans!<\/p>\n

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I am a huge fan of mystery and psychological thrillers and\u00a0Watching You\u00a0by Lisa Jewell is a fabulous addition to the genre.\u00a0 The twists and turns in this thriller will keep you guessing until literally the last paragraph.\u00a0 The book begins with a murder in an affluent English town but the[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[4277,4154,2528,268,3975,1587],"class_list":["post-33987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","tag-affairs","tag-domestic-suspense","tag-family-secrets","tag-murder","tag-neighbors","tag-psychological-thriller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8Qb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33987"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions\/34063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}