Watching You

Joey moves back to Bristol after four years abroad, new husband in tow, and ends up crashing in her big brother's spare room while she figures out her next step. Then she meets the head teacher next door - twice her age, and completely magnetic - and finds herself watching him constantly, telling herself it's harmless. It isn't. As her crush tips into obsession, it becomes clear Joey isn't the only one watching someone in this quiet, ordinary-looking neighbourhood - and a body turns up before the book is done explaining why. Lisa Jewell, the multimillion-copy bestselling author known for tightly wound domestic thrillers like Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs, builds Watching You around a rotating cast of neighbours whose secrets slowly bleed into each other, with the kind of twisty, character-driven plotting that made her a go-to name in the genre. Readers who like psychological thrillers with an ensemble cast, domestic suspense with real emotional stakes, and stories where everyone has something to hide will recognise Jewell at her most compulsively readable here.