Watching You: A Novel

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Synopsis

“Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions…Tricky, clever, unexpected.” —New York Times Book Review

“Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse.” —People

“A seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

The instant New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Then She Was Gone delivers another suspenseful page-turner about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect “for fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and Luckiest Girl Alive” (Library Journal).

Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It’s not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you.

As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all—including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who quickly develops an intense infatuation with this thoroughly charming yet unavailable man. Joey thinks her crush is a secret, but Tom’s teenaged son Freddie—a prodigy with aspirations of becoming a spy for MI5—excels in observing people and has witnessed Joey behaving strangely around his father.

One of Tom’s students, Jenna Tripp, also lives on the same street, and she’s not convinced her teacher is as squeaky clean as he seems. For one thing, he has taken a particular liking to her best friend and fellow classmate, and Jenna’s mother—whose mental health has admittedly been deteriorating in recent years—is convinced that Mr. Fitzwilliam is stalking her.

Meanwhile, twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam…

In Lisa Jewell’s latest brilliant “bone-chilling suspense” (People) no one is who they seem—and everyone is hiding something. Who has been murdered—and who would have wanted one of their neighbors dead? As “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace” (Booklist, starred review), you will be kept guessing until the startling revelation on the very last page.

Chapters

  • 001 WatchingYou Open

    Duration: 29s
  • 002 WatchingYou MyDiary

    Duration: 39s
  • 003 WatchingYou Prologue

    Duration: 03min
  • 004 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter1

    Duration: 15min
  • 005 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter2

    Duration: 05min
  • 006 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter3

    Duration: 12min
  • 007 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter4

    Duration: 06min
  • 008 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter5

    Duration: 08min
  • 009 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter6

    Duration: 07min
  • 010 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter7

    Duration: 07min
  • 011 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter8

    Duration: 03min
  • 012 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter9

    Duration: 03min
  • 013 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter10

    Duration: 09min
  • 014 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter11

    Duration: 08min
  • 015 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter12

    Duration: 12min
  • 016 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter13

    Duration: 07min
  • 017 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter14

    Duration: 05min
  • 018 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter15

    Duration: 05min
  • 019 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter16

    Duration: 02min
  • 020 WatchingYou Part1 Chapter17

    Duration: 17min
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