THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR: A gripping psychological thriller from the no. 1 bestselling author

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Some characters are not sufficiently fleshed out and so it doesn’t feel authentic and especially latterly, some of the dialogue makes me wince.

Although the story starts off slow, the pace and suspense starts to pick up halfway through and I was hooked. Maybe there is not only more than one story to be told in general, but there is instead limitless potential for MANY stories, always lying dormant in each of us.In between working on the home and adopting a dog she accidentally hit with her car, Ellie befriends her neighbor, Benjamin, who lives next door with his sister, Virginia. When a political anti-racist banner is placed in the garden, the next door neighbour, Tom Hutton, takes it upon himself to remove it.

In the morning, she finds that a white coat of paint has been applied to the window pane, effectively blocking the words on the banner.

They are invited to a backyard BBQ, where their “well intentioned” neighbors manage to offend with some of the comments made in an attempt of appearing welcoming.

Battle lines are drawn between the families that will lead to prejudice and anger of such volatility that it has devastating consequences for both families, and each will pay dearly for it. Ash and Ellie have been together about three years when they move into an old, worn down, rural home in Norfolk, England. This made the story’s events all the more terrifying, as the reader experiences them through the lens of the protagonist. No one is truly all good here, and the exposition on if people are at heart mostly good vs mostly bad really stuck out at me. One of the things that ai like most about this authors writing is that she is not afraid to go there.

The stories of Azim Husain and Mohammad Yunus, who ditched Pakistan for India, and then went on to serve in the Indian Foreign Service with acclaim are extremely interesting. My Final Verdict: This was my first Keri Beevis novel and I look forward to reading more of her work. They come across one they can’t resist-it was an amazing deal in the country side, perfect for a young couple with dreams of a family in the future. It was going to be 5 stars for me as it kept me gripped right up until the last page but the ending was really not an ending and it left me slightly confused and disappointed so I dropped it to 4. It wasn't that I wasn't surprised by them, I literally had them figured out almost from the first quarter of the book.

Becoming tenants of ‘The Gardens’, a residential close where all the houses are large and expensive, and the residents are secretive and mysterious, Lana struggles to settle in. A Bangladeshi couple, Bil and Salma, along with their teenage son, Zain, move to Blenheim in hopes of securing a better future for their boy. Overall, this was a very, very slow-burn, tiresome, and excruciatingly painful domestic/neighborhood drama and not the compelling page-turner courtroom thriller that I had been expecting and seeking. In Kia Abdullah’s latest, Those People Next Door, she gives something slightly different from her other books. An incredibily evocative, intense, and impactful book that highlights the many faces of ‘racism’; the ugly kind, the misconceptions, and the hurt and anguish felt by those who suffer from it and those that are wrongly accused of it.Salma, Bil and their son Zain moved to a quieter suburban neighborhood looking for a fresh start, but they don’t start off on a good foot with their neighbors when an anti-racist banner is taken down, and it’s assumed it is an act of racism.